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On 8/22/2017 1:07 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 8/22/2017 11:18 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On 22 August 2017 at 10:47, Eliot Moss <moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> wrote:
>>> On 8/22/2017 10:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> 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?

Since the OP has a #! /bin/bash line at the top of his script, I think
he means bash.  However, running the script with sh explicitly does act
as you describe, e.g.:  sh myscript x y z ... in contrast to: myscript x y z.

Regards - EM

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