X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=msxodRnXRQSccRq2 CpsX9KaHG50Ly2FlRYgQRD4DFcc2/HjPb21mIZa/5lrq094DxNkZaPanAMk+2Wof sMoPTlq8qIPrWOgcK8KzaOCIh8QP5Rkiz1HMg7MckyxXLaj3+qXnoS/whaWZD0MR Iv/wR8Z8XMT5YiNO6T1AGKtuNYk= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=IOzI3hx21dnf4w3PK54AQn ivC/4=; b=pWwnL7By1LMMgLdGQqmJ5fA9P/I8Xo60oXw0ymLuflyRhn+csgrYh5 9ew/11l0VFNLs41j4iLxMTmOs2rtM2e8VsJ2szLlMckDS3NJgC1T2yVbw/0guHp6 pCZ5eeBAbscdsyEcS2KV5r4hASnXodMG/jUBtFrZlDTwCgBdKLT98= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1614, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: mail-io0-f172.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=m8h7xZqgjjFSyYKynVdblOoacZBKp5tts2AYb4MMFfw=; b=cO6VnI8cIFcsc4F+FsPRp7s5y7ceekBudEztd9/39uhxE7v/ZIB4hq3LrsJDV3DbJR eS7vzPflUszGYi1BKXg/VxVuEK2+9iOGHJdst5DRVRVgvNOT3dvW9a7Iu/aUX+8+38lT 4YQbphZoskqrr/+jXf9z+10fylIry426FBb/dDRxXgDLIfjGslUaksZY7uEj6+lCoVWa IfWnIy+EDNvvsebM3MGQmm4zzH0o1QqfIv79o9AlnmmIUY865d4CxAicc4t5YbviOXVN vi5pjjOMYT4EKxhwxt9g75f0ZvZGDy+En+P4p5TRzFJ9xAeA9DMFO5TwIf1lgBNsHAeT fjlw== X-Gm-Message-State: AHYfb5i+WovQwJDQhe7TSlKcwP1tmuiaFo17CM/6/CMxatSlqB6ml5yu smEqqiIbgXrlgy0Q X-Received: by 10.107.173.130 with SMTP id m2mr1162231ioo.281.1503421677024; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: alias appears to not work inside a called bash script To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <000001d31acd$108b0340$31a109c0$@rogers.com> <0ac245f1-002b-2993-c1de-e4ddaafa9c7d AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: <99262820-ed21-d20d-8da0-2c0daa29f476@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:07:58 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 8/22/2017 11:18 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 22 August 2017 at 10:47, Eliot Moss wrote: >> On 8/22/2017 10:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >>> I replicated this problem on my system and found that the fix is to add a >>> >>> shopt -s expand_aliases >>> >>> at the top of the script. I don't know why the option is turned off >>> when running scripts versus in a plain script but that seems to be a >>> default in Cygwin. >> >> >> 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. 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? -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple