On 2/2/22 8:25 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
> I.e. My bash is posix compliant by default w/r/t aliases:
It's not, and that's how this whole issue got started. You're running
bash-4.4. POSIX requires the following to work:
alias switch=case
echo $(switch foo in foo) echo ok 2;; esac )
and it simply doesn't, whether you run in posix mode or not.
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