Yeah, it may not be intuitive at first... but is really useful to be able to rely on both behaviors (evaluate on definition or when run).
If you wanted to use other aliases within an alias you have to start playing around with eval (which I don't really recommend). Like:
alias testingEval="eval 'git-branch'"
But things get messy pretty quickly... I pretty much use alias for super simple things or functions when I need something a bit longer that could use some extra variables, or to use parameters, or runtime expansion.
it kind of tripped me up! I was expecting it to evaluate when invoked, just like a function.
Yeah, it may not be intuitive at first... but is really useful to be able to rely on both behaviors (evaluate on definition or when run).
If you wanted to use other aliases within an alias you have to start playing around with
eval(which I don't really recommend). Like:alias testingEval="eval 'git-branch'"But things get messy pretty quickly... I pretty much use alias for super simple things or functions when I need something a bit longer that could use some extra variables, or to use parameters, or runtime expansion.
btw, I use zsh too :) ... I use prezto and got some configs online if you want to take a look
github.com/ivanalejandro0/prezto/b...
I get why it works like that and I'm ok with it :) It really just surprised me but then again, I don't do a lot of bash scripting.
The key to it is just escape the
$char in an alias.alias git-up="git push -u origin \$(git-branch)"Oh, cool. I didn't know about that, thanks.
I've edited my comment escaping the $.