Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!jmberkley
From: jmberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu (J. Michael Berkley)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: n>&m redirection and alias expansion in bash 1.01
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Date: 26 Jun 89 22:49:04 GMT
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I am still having trouble with	

	foo 2>&1 > foo.out

I was always getting the error message:

	syntax error near `&%1'

With the help of an inciteful friend, I discovered that the problem
is with some of my favourite aliases:

	alias 1='%1'

It seems that bash does alias expansion after "&" even though the "&"
doesn't indicate a background job.

 Mike Berkley, University of Waterloo
 PAMI Lab
 jmberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu
 {utai,uunet}!watmath!watnext!jmberkley

PS - This is on a uVax running Ultrix and bash 1.01 compiled with
bison and gcc.