On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> If you make the case statement:
> 
> "a" )
> 	echo a
> 	;;
> 
> it works as expected.
> 
> Aliases are totally evil in anything but an interactive
> shell.  I think the script as is, is failing in the prescribed manner
> give the alias.

Yeah, Christos fixed this. The problem was not an academic case though,
but tripping over it when building pkgsrc/devel/pth with an alias "l=ls
-la" in .profile. Not much of an option to fix random 3rd party
scripts.


 - Hubert

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