Bug 1010759

Summary: type command output function, Inconsistent with the function definition.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: JianHong Yin <jiyin>
Component: bashAssignee: Ondrej Oprala <ooprala>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version: 5.10CC: ovasik
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: 1010760 1010761 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-02-21 14:44:54 UTC Type: Bug
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Description JianHong Yin 2013-09-23 02:10:54 UTC 
Description of problem:
type command output  function, Inconsistent with the function definition.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@dhcp-13-194 ~]# rpm -q bash
bash-3.2-32.el5; in RHEL6.4 6.5 7.0 has the similar problem.

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. f() { echo $1 | grep --color=auto  "kkk"; rm -i kkk; }
2. type f
3.

Actual results:
[root@dhcp-13-194 ~]# f() { echo $1 | grep --color=auto  "kkk"; rm -i kkk; }
[root@dhcp-13-194 ~]# type f
f is a function
f () 
{ 
    echo $1 | grep --color=auto "kkk";
    rm -i -i kkk  <<<--- here the '-i' was changed to double
}

Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Ondrej Oprala 2014-02-21 14:44:54 UTC 
Petr Stodulka investigated this bug and found out this is actually caused by alias expansion.
I'm guessing you have an alias rm='rm -i' set, which bash then expands to 'rm -i -i'; which I do not consider a bug.

Please note it's a good coding habit to specify full paths for system utilities in shell scripts, which would also stop bash from silently expanding your alias.