From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 17:31:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boston3.g4.net (boston3.G4.NET [216.177.0.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4454537B404 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from metro2000.net (gate.office.g4.net [216.177.0.159] (may be forged)) by boston3.g4.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2L1VGT24195 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:31:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from davidl@metro2000.net) Message-ID: <3C9937AC.3080506@metro2000.net> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:30:20 -0500 From: David Loszewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020111 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Aliasing problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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. This email address is not yet subscribed with freebsd.org because I was using my mediaone.net account before. So please send any replies to davidl@metro2000.net Thx, Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message