Re: bash function/alias question

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 06/27/05 

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:24:15 -0400

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:17:54 -0700, Eric Taylor
  <et1@rocketship1.com> wrote:
> I'm confused, I define all the functions and the aliases in
> the script file. I am not trying to change the parent, I just
> showed that when sourced, it works, so there are no
> syntax errors. When run as a separate process, it fails,
> even though everything is defined in the spawned process.
>
When you execute a script as a separate process, the functions and
aliases defined in the script are part of that process. 

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