Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : cat test.sh > #!/bin/bash > function foo > { > shopt -s expand_aliases > alias ls='ls -l' > ls / > }
>From the manual: Aliases are expanded when a function definition is read, not when the function is executed, because a function definition is itself a compound command. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."