Hi. On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:47:27AM +1000, Paul C. Leopardi wrote: > Oops, I had > "alias runtest 'runtest -v'" instead of > "alias runtest='runtest -v'" > > I'm running "make -k check" again, with > "alias runtest='runtest -v -v -v'" Aliases are a shell mechanism, and hence are not exported to subshells or commands since expansion takes place before a command is executed. And they are also not expanded in non-interactive shells by default. (at least that's the case for bash) So, to make sure that "runtest -v -v -v" is called rather than just `runtest' better make a little sh script called `runtest' and place it somewhere in your PATH before the real runtest program; e.g.: #!/bin/sh echo "( runtest -v -v -v )" 1>&2 /usr/bin/runtest -v -v -v "$@" -- Claudio
