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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: [idallen@watcgl: bash aliases not transitive?!]
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Date: 23 Aug 89 19:50:20 GMT
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bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox) writes:
\   From: Andy Wai <accwai@watmath.waterloo.edu>
\   > From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen@watcgl>
\...
\   >     bash$ alias a=b
\   >     bash$ alias b=date
\   >     bash$ a
\   >     b: commmand not found
\...
\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.

Could you explain why, Brian?  Isn't non-transitivity of aliases very annoying?
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