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In alias command="bash bashscriptname" the script does not necessarily have to be executable; in the alias c=/path/to/script it has to.

Martin - マーチン
– Martin - マーチン

2018-07-24 16:29:42 +00:00
Commented Jul 24, 2018 at 16:29
It is not true at all that functions are "only available inside Bash". If you mean to say they are a Bash-only feature, that is simply false (Bourne shell and every compatible derivative has them); and if you mean to say they are a feature of interactive shells, that's not accurate either (though aliases, variables, and functions defined in a file which gets loaded at startup by interactive shells obviously will not be loaded by noninteractive shells).

tripleee
– tripleee

2018-08-19 08:10:34 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2018 at 8:10
@tripleee The meaning was more like "you can't exec() shell functions" :-)

nohillside
– nohillside

2018-09-17 08:50:26 +00:00
Commented Sep 17, 2018 at 8:50

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