Bug 253673

Summary: Bash man page correction for alias expansion.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Norm Murray <nmurray>
Component: bashAssignee: Tomas Janousek <tjanouse>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Chris Ward <cward>
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Version: 5.0CC: tao
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0380 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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I think that should have been 'for' the bash manpage ;P
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patch from Issuetracker none

Description Wade Mealing 2007-08-21 05:18:18 UTC 
Description of problem:

The man page for bash does not accurately describe bash's use of alias's within
a non interactive script.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

bash-3.1-16.1

Patch incoming to bash manpage.
Comment 1 Wade Mealing 2007-08-21 05:24:44 UTC 
Created attachment 161948 [details]
I think that should have been 'for' the bash manpage ;P
Comment 2 Pete Graner 2007-08-21 06:39:33 UTC 
Looks good. I'm pushing for a 5.2 update of bash.
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-16 03:46:11 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 4 Tomas Janousek 2007-11-06 17:03:14 UTC 
What's wrong with that text?
Comment 6 Tomas Janousek 2007-11-07 08:00:48 UTC 
Well, the manpage for the alias command describes what the command does, not how
expansion works, that's ok, I think. But I don't understand how removing the
paragraph about expand_aliases helps (that's what the attached patch does).
Comment 7 Masahiro Matsuya 2007-11-07 08:46:03 UTC 
Created attachment 249881 [details]
patch from Issuetracker
Comment 8 Tomas Janousek 2007-11-07 09:07:23 UTC 
Ok, makes sense now.
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 15:36:09 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0380.html