[GRASS-dev] Re: doxygen problem - Re: [GRASS-SVN] r33243 - grass/branches/develbranch_6/lib

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Sun Dec 14 08:54:00 EST 2008


Markus Neteler wrote:

> Maybe mv fails and it must be 'mv -f'? The cronjob runs under
> my user login on xblade14 and mv is an alias to 'mv -v'. I don't
> know if aliases are picked up by user cronjobs.

They aren't, nor is the user's environment from /etc/profile,
~/.bash_profile, etc.

In any case, aliases only work in shells where they are explicitly
defined (in practice, this means interactive shells which source
~/.bashrc). They aren't propagated to child processes (e.g. scripts,
make, etc).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>


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