Am 04.08.2010 12:39, schrieb Clark J. Wang:
I was testing the precedence between functions and aliases so I tried like this (with bash 4.1.5):$ cat rc alias foo='echo this is the alias' foo() { builtin echo 'this is the function' } foo $ source rc bash: confusing-aliases-2.sh: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `(' bash: confusing-aliases-2.sh: line 4: `foo()' $ Seems like I must explicitly use the `function' keyword to define foo() for this scenario. Is that the correct behavior?
The man page says "The first word of a simple command, if unquoted, is checked to see if has an alias". Therefore 'foo' in your function declaration is replaced by 'echo this is the alias'. Unfortunately, you can't quote the function name in the declaration, so you have to either use 'function' or say "unalias foo" first.
Regards, Bernd -- Bernd Eggink http://sudrala.de
