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Re: alias appears to not work inside a called bash script
On 8/22/2017 3:07 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 8/22/2017 1:13 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> On 8/22/2017 1:07 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
>>> On 8/22/2017 11:18 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>>> On 22 August 2017 at 10:47, Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu> wrote:
>>>>> On 8/22/2017 10:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>
>>> Are you talking bash as sh or bash as bash? Bash as sh will expand
>>> those aliases. But you should study
>>> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/aliases.html for all your scripts. Are
>>> there environment variables that could affect the outcome?
>>
>> Since the OP has a #! /bin/bash line at the top of his script, I think
>> he means bash. However, running the script with sh explicitly does act
>> as you describe, e.g.: sh myscript x y z ... in contrast to: myscript x
>> y z.
>>
>
> There's also --posix and set -o posix which will cause bash to perform
> as the OP reports. I'm guessing this to be used in the bash startup
> files in a global fashion on those systems that you're not having to
> specify to use aliases.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSIX-Mode.html#Bash-POSIX-Mode
>
And --enable-strict-posix-default configure option turns this setting on
by default. I'll leave it up to the Cygwin maintainer to decide if it
should be used.
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