From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 17:40:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (c-24-98-60-141.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDC037B423 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:40:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd ([192.168.10.7] helo=bsd.smnolde.com) by smnolde.com with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16nrYm-0009pu-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:40:08 -0500 Received: from scott by bsd.smnolde.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16nrYl-0008M9-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:40:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:40:07 -0500 From: "Scott M. Nolde" To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aliasing problems Message-ID: <20020320204007.A25284@smnolde.com> References: <3C9937AC.3080506@metro2000.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3C9937AC.3080506@metro2000.net>; from davidl@metro2000.net on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:30:20PM -0500 X-Disclaimer: If you can read this you're looking for too much 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 David Loszewski(davidl@metro2000.net)@2002.03.20 20:30:20 +0000: > 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 > Put that in your .profile or .bash_profile with the other aliases. -- Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message