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From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>, 517008@bugs.debian.org
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Bug#517008: alias not expanded with zsh -c
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:54:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090325145418.GB9330@scru.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090225022850.GA4841@vin.lip.ens-lyon.fr>

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 03:28:50AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Aliases are not expanded with the -c option, as shown below.
> 
> vin% cmd=$(printf "emulate sh\nalias a='echo OK >&2'\na")
> vin% printf "%s\n" "$cmd"
> emulate sh
> alias a='echo OK >&2'
> a
> vin% printf "%s" "$cmd" | zsh -f
> OK
> vin% zsh -fc "$cmd"
> zsh:3: command not found: a
> vin% 
> 
> There's no such problem with ksh93, bash in POSIX mode, and dash
> (pdksh has the same bug).

That does appear to be the behavior.


       reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090225022850.GA4841@vin.lip.ens-lyon.fr>
2009-03-25 14:54 ` Clint Adams [this message]
2009-03-25 16:30   ` Peter Stephenson
2009-03-25 17:25     ` Peter Stephenson
2009-03-25 18:11       ` Bart Schaefer
2009-03-25 18:20         ` Peter Stephenson
2009-03-26  0:14           ` Bart Schaefer
2009-03-26  9:50             ` Peter Stephenson
2009-03-26 15:12               ` Bart Schaefer
2009-03-26 15:18                 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-03-25 23:35         ` Vincent Lefevre

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