Issue with Docker.app and alias when running from cron

[jonasbn]

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Description

Issue with Docker.app and alias when running from cron. I am pondering if the issue is based on insufficient $PATH definition.

Bugs and Issues

Specify what version was used

Version based on master from GitHub, as of 2018-03-01 (and earlier).

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> perl -v

This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

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Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
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Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
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Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  [jonasbn:~] $ 

Expected behaviour

What behaviour did you expect?

I would expect docker to preserved as the command line tool and the Docker.app would be aliased as dockerapp

Actual and observed behaviour

What behaviour did you observe?

The suggested alias shadows the command line tool docker

> alias docker
alias docker='open -a /Applications/Docker.app'
 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  [jonasbn:~] $ 

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

A test, script or one-liner is preferred, but anything that can help is good

$ crontab -l

0   10  *   *   *   /Users/jonasbn/bin/macaliaser -i /Applications /Users/jonasbn/Applications > /Users/jonasbn/.aliases

[jonasbn]

If the issue is in the cron setup, this is not a bug in macaliaser, but it should be addressed in the documentation any how.

[jonasbn]

The problem is that users $PATH is not know to the job is running under cron. There is more that one way to address the issue. I settled for:

. $HOME/.bash_profile; /Users/jonasbn/bin/macaliaser -i /Applications /Users/jonasbn/Applications > /Users/jonasbn/.aliases

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