> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 9:46 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >> >> On 2/5/22 3:44 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote: >> > maybe ask about an shopt feature to enable straight alias expansion >> > when the aliases are following .. >> >> How would that, whatever it is, help you here?
I think he wants an option that allows expansion of arbitrarily long sequences of aliases, regardless of lexical context. On Sat, Feb 5, 2022, at 3:54 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote: > it would make the whole work at alias level > alias (symbolic) 1=$(( 2=1+2 3=+ 4=1+2 5=)) > 1 2 3 4 5 > works > [i wish] *screaming at the sky* Have you considered not writing code like this? -- vq
