1.5.21: problem with source command in bash

[mwoehlke]

Ring, Patrick wrote:
> I am having a problem with the "source" command in bash (3.1-9).
> When I try to source a file with aliases in it, the aliases get garbled
> so that they don't work.  When I type "alias" on the command line, I can
> see that it is incorrect.  Other commands also do not work, usually
> giving an error like "command not found".
> Example:
> Put the line
>    alias ls='ls -F'
> in a file called trysrc.  Inside bash, cd to the directory and type
>    source trysrc
>    alias
> I get the output
>    'lias ls='ls -F
> If I type 'ls', I get
>    ls:  invalid option --
> 
> If I type the alias command on the command line, it seems to work fine.
> I have also tried this on a second computer and get the same results.
> Thanks in advace for your help,

Have you RTFRA'd (for bash-3.1-9) and STFLA'd? It looks like doing these 
would solve your problem.

-- 
Matthew
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