Re: Bash scripting problems

From: Robert Nichols (rnichols42_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/11/05

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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:19:18 -0600

    Chadley Wilson wrote:
    > greetings
    >
    > I have this issue:
    > in /root/.bashrc there is an alias which breaks my script in the following
    > way:
    > When I need to copy or del a file the rm -i and cp -i are preventing things
    > from running smoothly.
    >
    > I have tried numerous tricks none work?
    >
    > could some-one please show me how you work around this without editing the
    > basrc files?

    Unless you have gone out of your way to enable them, aliases are ignored
    in non-interactive shells. Here is the relevant excerpt from the bash
    manpage:

            Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive,
            unless the expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt
            (see the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS
            below). 

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Bob Nichols         rnichols42@comcast.net
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