[SOLVED:] Re: make producing basename error that can't be captured by "make &> make.out"

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 3/1/2012 10:50 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>    I think it's because aliases are just simple text substitutions.  So if you
> have 'make' being transformed to 'settitle Making $(basename $PWD)&&  make
> "$@"' then you would get 'make>&  make.out' becoming 'settitle Making
> $(basename $PWD)&&  make "$@">&  make.out' and as you see the redirect only
> gets applied to the command after the '&&'.
>
>      cheers,
>        DaveK
>

Dave:

Ah, I understand.

I wrapped the whole alias in paras and am now getting all errors put 
into make.out, including the basename.

I'll go and figure out some way to filter $(PWD) to be acceptable to 
basename.

Many thanks for taking the time to help,
Paul

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