I once was testing with Eric on IRC and the aliases sometimes do work
within the same file. I think that the distance between the definition and
usage is important. I wonder why? Are the scripts (zshrc in this case)
being parsed in an advancing manner?


On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 01:25, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/22/20, Frank Gallacher <franxg@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have a function:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > Which calls an alias:
> >
> > alias dumpit='hexdump -C -n 128'
> >
> > It works fine in bash, but with zsh now I get:
> >
> > :::::::: test.txt ::::::::
> > dumpall:11: command not found: dumpit
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong???
>
> Yes, don't use aliases for anything but interactive usage. Eg if you
> want to use dumpit in a script, make it be a function:
> dumpit() { hexdump -C -n 128 }
>
> Aliases are expanded on parse time, which means aliases defined in a
> file won't be usable in that same file. (Because it is parsed in its
> entirety before any of the code is actually run).
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>


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