Aliases in subbshell does not work as expected

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Re: Aliases in subbshell does not work as expected

G'day, This working as documented. The relevant part of the manual is, I think: Bash always reads at least one complete line of input before executing any of the commands on that line. Aliases are expanded when a command is read, not when it is executed. If aaa is not already