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Re: why does this define bla() instead of respect the newline as command
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Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev |
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Re: why does this define bla() instead of respect the newline as command separator |
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Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:04:51 +0200 |
case statements are imho string comparision, nothing to do with aliases
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 17:23 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 3/19/21 10:59 AM, Oğuz wrote:
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> > Not much related, but isn't this supposed to work?
> >
> > $ cat foo.sh
> > alias c='case ' w='foo ' i='in ' p=') ' e='esac' u='uname ' s='; '
> > c w i e
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> Bash is pretty careful not to perform alias expansion in case statement
> pattern lists, even to the point where that overrides the 'alias expand
> the next word because the previous expansion ended with a space'
> semantics.
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> I could flip that, I suppose, even if the `use case' is this hypothetical
> example.
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>