a weird bash feature

[Tyler Spivey]

all right, in case you didn't know, there is this weird feature of bash:
alias ls='ls -f ' #dont forget the space after the last '
alias test=';touch /tmp/foo-bar'
then:
ls test
and it would touch /tmp/foo-bar. obviously you can do:
alias test='/usr/share/man/man3'
ls test
and it would substitute that. but you need the space after the alias or this
won't work.
i stumbled across it because my distro sets ls up to use color and it kept
running something i didn't want because of the space after the alias,
so just wanted to warn you that this could happen and what to do about it.
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