# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # # this is a new feature: expanding aliases when initially parsing command # substitutions. required by posix, so enabled in posix mode. default mode # stays backwards compatible. shopt -s expand_aliases set -o posix alias switch=case switch foo in foo) echo ok 1;; esac echo $( switch foo in foo) echo ok 2;; esac ) echo "$( switch foo in foo) echo ok 3;; esac )" echo $( switch foo in (foo) echo ok 4;; esac ) echo "$( switch foo in (foo) echo ok 5;; esac )" alias nest='(' echo $( nest echo ok 6 ) ) echo "$( nest echo ok 7 ) )" alias short='echo ok 8 )' alias DO='{ ' alias DONE='}' got=$(DO echo ok 9; DONE) echo "$got" echo $( short echo "$( short " # remember that short" won't work because you start a new quoting context # inside $( and the token (`short') won't be delimited by the ending double # quote, so there's no opportunity to perform the alias expansion that would # terminate the command substitution