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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: [idallen@watcgl: bash aliases not transitive?!]
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   Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 11:45:28 EDT
   From: Andy Wai <accwai@watmath.waterloo.edu>

   > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 20:35:20 EDT
   > From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen@watcgl>
   > To: accwai@watmath
   > Subject: bash aliases not transitive?!
   >
   >     bash$ alias a=b
   >     bash$ alias b=date
   >     bash$ a
   >     b: commmand not found

   The version in question is 1.02.

   Andy Wai
   Math. Faculty Computing Facility
   U. of Waterloo

Aliases are only expanded when they are in the position of a command
word, or if they follow an alias whose expansion ends in a space.

Brian