alias not recognized if alias command is piped to bash

Asked Jun 01 '20 at 19:34

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I want to execute a small script by piping it into bash to execute it remotely without the need to copy. Everything seems to work except aliases:

echo "alias test_alias=\"echo alias\"; test_alias" | bash
bash: line 1: test_alias: command not found

Does anyone know why this fails?

asked Jun 01 '20 at 19:34

Kompetenzbolzen

By default aliases are only expanded in interactive shells. – Barmar Jun 01 '20 at 19:36
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Use a function instead. – Barmar Jun 01 '20 at 19:37
Thank you! that makes sense... – Kompetenzbolzen Jun 01 '20 at 19:43

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