> [bash-2.05b]$ which ls > alias ls='ls -F --color=auto' > ls () > { > /bin/ls --color=tty ${1+"$@"} > }
That per se is no problem. But shomehow, the function definition is also active in #!/bin/sh scripts which causes trouble here. So, please look up where you define this and see if you can restrict the scope to interactive shells. And, please, don't use "export -f". Thomas