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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:25:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Radhika Sambamurti <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Aliasing commands
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Hi,
I am also running ksh and am having trouble aliasing in my
.profile file.

the command is : 
alias ll='ls -l'

when i execute the .profile file with . /.profile, it
works. If i exit the terminal and restart another shell i
get the error when i execute the alias ll

/bin/ksh: ll: not found

Could this be a PATH issue?
I cannot seem to figure it out.

Thanks,
radhika.
--- Benjamin Hyatt <benski@pacbell.net> wrote:
> On 05 Sep 2001 08:49:58 -0500, Joel Gudknecht wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Which file / location is proper to alias commands? Or
> is this shell dependant?
> 
> It is dependant on shell...
> 
> In my example here I am using ksh.
> In my home directory I have a .profile
> 
> let's say for example I want an alias for rm, so that
> it will request confirmation before deleting ;o)
> 
> alias rm='rm -i'
> 
> . ./.profile
> 
> rm foo
> remove foo?
> 
> Hope that helps...
> 
> ./Ben
> 
> 
> 
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