Arto Stimms wrote:
I would like to run a bash script with a few changes in the environment. I would expect this to work: [snip] As a small example I have tried using these two minimal filesinit.sh: hello () { echo "hello world"; } alias listdir=ls script: hello listdir I get the following output: $ bash --rcfile init.sh script script: line 1: hello: command not found script: line 2: listdir: command not found What can I do to make my changes work in the script?
'script' is being run in a subshell, and you cannot export aliases to a subshell (but there are things you can do to get an rc file to run for a subshell; read 'man bash'). For the function, try 'export'ing it.
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