From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Frank Gallacher <franxg@gmail.com>
Cc: "zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Alias call in function fails...
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 01:23:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3TcSbwBn4cxFoTLs7Cr2bWNQ_k_Zh9kjgMMPDrvipGHWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BY5PR13MB3490395E4DAF4F14E95E02F7F2970@BY5PR13MB3490.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-22 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-22 12:49 Frank Gallacher
2020-06-22 23:23 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2020-06-23 8:37 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2020-06-23 9:14 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-06-23 9:55 ` Mikael Magnusson
2020-06-23 11:28 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2020-06-23 12:04 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-23 12:46 ` Perry Smith
2020-06-23 13:10 ` Kamil Dudka
2020-06-23 16:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-23 21:14 ` Perry Smith
2020-06-23 22:54 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-23 23:29 ` Perry Smith
2020-06-23 23:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-24 0:47 ` Perry Smith
2020-06-24 9:28 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-24 12:55 ` Perry Smith
2020-06-23 23:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-24 10:10 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-24 10:47 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-24 2:58 ` Grant Taylor
2020-06-29 16:24 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-06-29 16:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-30 4:02 ` Bart Schaefer
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