[CentOS] Re: question on "cp -f" on centos 5.1

Alex White wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:25:27 -0500 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet@gmail.com took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:

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[ignacio@localhost ~]$ alias foo=bar [ignacio@localhost ~]$ foo bash: bar: command not found [ignacio@localhost ~]$ "foo" bash: foo: command not found [ignacio@localhost ~]$ \foo bash: foo: command not found

Interesting. Here's an example of what I see on my system with cp aliased to cp -i

[prata@crane ~]$ which cp alias cp='cp -i' /bin/cp [prata@crane ~]$ touch test.tst [prata@crane ~]$ "cp" -rf test.tst test.keytest

Thanks for that information, I need to read the howto on bash scripting again! *blinks*

The shell does not apply aliases to commands executed from scripts.