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Re: alias appears to not work inside a called bash script


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:

It's a *bash* default - it has nothing to do with Cygwin as distinct
from other bash installations.  If you had a different experience
elsewhere, it could be that the default was overridden in some system
wide bashrc file - but that strikes me as unlikely.  I suspect that
this is done as a security measure, to prevent an alias from introducing
a surprise.


I checked on CentOS and there is no shopt option set in any of the
/etc/ files. It must be a compiled in default of some sort as EL6 and
EL7 both work without an explicit `shopt -s expand_aliases`. I then
tried on an Ubuntu 16.04 system and it works without the `shopt -s
expand_aliases` also.

I didn't have access to anything else at the moment so I can't say
which other systems might actually follow the default other than
Cygwin at the moment.

Hmmm ... One of my servers runs EL7 and it works there exactly as under
Cygwin on my laptop.  I wonder: Is there an nawk installed somewhere
on your path on these CentOS and EL* systems?  Put another way, if you
put 'type -a nawk' in your script *before* the alias lines, what output
do you get?  And what about shopt?  I added these lines before the alias
lines:

shopt | grep expand_aliases
type -a nawk
type -t nawk

Regards - Eliot

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