Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:00:51 -0500 From: David Loszewski <davidl@metro2000.net> To: Jamie Jones <jamie@host-811.news.bishopston.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aliasing problems Message-ID: <3C995AF3.30209@metro2000.net> References: <3C9937AC.3080506@metro2000.net> <200203210236.g2L2ad36098446@catflap.bishopston.net>
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Jamie Jones wrote: > In muc.lists.freebsd.questions, you wrote: > >>I seem to be having problems aliasing programs within just about any >>startup file. If I try to do something as simple as: >> >>alias ls "ls -F" >> >>in the .xinitrc file and then try to sh it I get: >> >>alias: ls not found >>alias: ls -F not found >> > > Firstly, the alias for you mention is for the csh/tcsh shells. > The syntax for "sh" is: > > alias ls="ls -F" > > secondly, if you "sh" the file, the file will be run in a new shell, > the alias will be setup, then subsequently lost when the shell exits.. > > You need to *source* the file, using "." instead of "sh" to load it: > > . ./filename > > >>why would this be happening? this happens with anything that I try to >>alias but if I try to alias it temporarily at the console it works fine. >> > > presumably, you are using the default shell on the console of "csh" ? > > In which case, you "source" the file with: > > source ./filename > > Cheers, > jamie > > i have zsh, I don't know if that would make a difference, but I did it with the = instead and everything the way you said to do it and this time it didn't give me any errors but it also didn't do anything, if I type that command it doesn't come out right yet if I just do it on the command line instead of executing a file it works fine. Dave -- David Loszewski G4 Communications Corp. V: 603.296.4400 / F: 603.647.7576 E: support@g4.net / W3: www.G4communications.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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