Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:10:13PM +0000, T o n g wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> A (adv) bash alias expansion question -- 
> How can I use my aliases or functions in my bash script?
> 
> I have the following alias and function defined in my ~/.bashrc:
> 
>   $ alias rd
>   alias rd='rmdir'
> 
>   $ type dt
>   dt is a function
>   dt () 
>   { 
>       pushd +$1
>   }
> 
> How can I use them in my script?
> 
> Looking through the man pages, I think the following content is related 
> to my question:
> 
>        Aliases  are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the
>        expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt.

So just use functions. They are really handier. Here's a function that
replaces an alias:

my_alias() {
  some command "$@"
}

Then you can freely use:

  my_alias whatever extra parameters

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