Re: Redirection between assignment statement and command name prevents alias substitution

[Oğuz]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 2:26 PM Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> wrote:

> though the NetBSD sh does expand it


dash and NetBSD sh do aliases just the way I expect (except aliases that
appear in a place where only a here document body may appear, but no shell
does that the way I think they'd do, so..), it's fascinating.


> after
> a '<' you're certainly not in the command word position, what comes next
> must be a redirect operand (filename).   The space at the end of the 'l'
> alias value should cause alias expansion, but I can almost understand why
> it might not.
>

I don't see the point in checking the syntax of the input in the middle of
alias substitution, but that might be because I have never attempted to
write a shell or anything that complex.


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