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sr #110342: Invalid alias expansion

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Submitted:  Wed 28 Oct 2020 11:49:32 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Invalid
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Operating System:  GNU/Linux
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Mon 09 Nov 2020 02:07:29 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This is how alias expansion is defined to behave.

"If  the last  character  of  the  alias value is a blank, then
 the next command word following the alias is also checked for
 alias expansion."

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Wed 28 Oct 2020 11:49:32 PM UTC, original submission:  

Aliases are expanded in parameters position and it depends on space in alias definition:


$ echo $BASH_VERSION
5.0.18(2)-release
$ unalias ls
$ alias t=/bin/true
$ ls t
ls: cannot access 't': No such file or directory
$ alias ls=ls
$ ls t
ls: cannot access 't': No such file or directory
$ alias ls='ls '
$ ls t
/bin/true
$ alias ls='ls -l'
$ ls t
ls: cannot access 't': No such file or directory
$ alias ls='ls -l '
$ ls t
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31128 Mar  6  2020 /bin/true

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