Re: BASH_ALIASES assignment allow special characters

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Subject	Re: BASH_ALIASES assignment allow special characters
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On 5/27/18 4:20 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 19
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 	The special array BASH_ALIAS allows assignment/creation of aliases with
> 	special characters in it.
> 	Though these characters would error when used in an alias statement.

Thanks for the report. I suppose it's better to report an error on
assignment instead of simply never allowing the alias `name' to be used.

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