Your message dated Wed, 29 Jul 2015 20:59:28 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line bash correctly expands aliases, closing bug has caused the Debian Bug report #702875, regarding alias for grep breaks "grep bash" to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: bash Version: 4.1-3 If I run alias grep="grep " echo bash | grep bash then grep doesn't show "bash". echo xxxx | grep xxxx works. Please note the space in the alias. The real life code was # uncomment to enable color # color="--color=auto" alias grep="grep $color" Platform is Squeeze on amd64. Regards Harri
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--- Begin Message ---alias grep="grep $COLOR" and similar constructs are broken, searching for "alias ex" in bash's manpage explains this feature, i.e., bash did nothing wrong here, even though this feature is quite counter intuitive. Expanding aliases after aliases is useful for example to enable prepending nohup to aliases, therefore Korn shells do alias nohup='nohup ' by default If such an alias was in a .bashrc provided in Debian, this was fixed long ago, hence closing.
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