From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: alias appears to not work inside a called bash script
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <772ae5e5-8ed7-76c4-6d4b-cf352504a8cc@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99262820-ed21-d20d-8da0-2c0daa29f476@gmail.com>
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.
Regards - EM
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-22 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-21 22:30 Michel LaBarre
2017-08-21 22:53 ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-21 22:55 ` alias appears to not work inside a called bash scripty Duncan Roe
2017-08-22 1:01 ` Michel LaBarre
2017-08-22 14:31 ` alias appears to not work inside a called bash script Stephen John Smoogen
2017-08-22 14:47 ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-22 15:19 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2017-08-22 16:46 ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-22 18:25 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2017-08-25 0:37 ` Either trim quoted text or STOP BOTTOM POSTING (was: alias appears to not work...) L A Walsh
2017-08-25 14:25 ` Either trim quoted text or STOP BOTTOM POSTING cyg Simple
2017-08-25 16:43 ` Dan Kegel
2017-08-26 6:04 ` convenient trimming of quoted text to make points L A Walsh
2017-08-26 15:26 ` cyg Simple
2017-09-01 4:54 ` Duncan Roe
2017-09-01 7:37 ` Csaba Raduly
2017-09-01 12:38 ` cyg Simple
2017-08-22 17:08 ` alias appears to not work inside a called bash script cyg Simple
2017-08-22 17:14 ` Eliot Moss [this message]
2017-08-22 19:07 ` cyg Simple
2017-08-22 19:11 ` cyg Simple
2017-08-23 19:08 ` Eric Blake
2017-08-22 19:47 Kaz Kylheku
2017-08-25 2:23 ` L A Walsh
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