Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: [PATCH] `alias' reusable form breaks with alias NAMES starting with `-' Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:44:17 -0800 Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Lines: 16 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5668FB68.1080304@gmail.com> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1449798266 6512 208.118.235.17 (11 Dec 2015 01:44:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: "Mingye Wang (Arthur2e5)" , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: <5668FB68.1080304@gmail.com> X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020206.566A2A72.01B9,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0, ip=64.134.128.92, so=2015-08-12 04:07:17, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: ea63bdfebfbfa1f4467a16d215fca3ea X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv1-2015.case.edu) X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020203.566A2A73.0104,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0, ip=64.134.128.92, so=2015-08-12 04:07:17, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: b6dc1e06c332f71e6b6c1c3f245bd4b2 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.226 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11981 On 12/9/15 8:11 PM, Mingye Wang (Arthur2e5) wrote: > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 42 > > Description: > `alias' does not `--'-ize alias items with a name starting with a `-' > when it is invoked to print aliases in the reusable form. This causes > `invalid option' errors when trying to reuse these output. This was changed back in March, and the change was in bash-4.4-alpha. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/