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

[Robert Nichols]

Alex White wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:25:27 -0500
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> took out a #2 pencil
> and scribbled:
> 
>> [ignacio at localhost ~]$ alias foo=bar
>> [ignacio at localhost ~]$ foo
>> bash: bar: command not found
>> [ignacio at localhost ~]$ "foo"
>> bash: foo: command not found
>> [ignacio at 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 at crane ~]$ which cp
> alias cp='cp -i'
>         /bin/cp
> [prata at crane ~]$ touch test.tst
> [prata at 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.

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