Everyone has given fixes, but nobody has explained why his original command didn't work. alias is used to alias commands. It is not for substitutions anywhere else in the command line. So cd ule wouldn't work, because ule wasn't the command. The alias ule='cd /usr...' works, if ule is used as a command, not as the parameter of a cd command. The symbolic link given before only works if you're in the directory that the symbolic link exists in. ---- Robert P. Nix internet: nix.robert@xxxxxxxx Mayo Clinic phone: 507-284-0844 RO-CE-8-857 page: 507-270-1182 200 First St. SW Rochester, MN 55905 ---- "Codito, Ergo Sum" "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Clair Garman > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:31 AM > To: fedora > Subject: Re: alias > > On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 07:14, Spero Manolatos wrote: > > I am using the sh shell. > > > > Have tried to use alias in the following way: > > > > Alias <string> <dir> > > > > Example: alias ule /usr/local/etc > > > > When I try to retrieve the alias using cd ule it does not work. > > > > If I type alias then enter I do get a list with ule included????? > > I suggest the following: > > alias ule='cd /usr/local/etc' > > ule > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Clair Garman 301-270-2248 Takoma Park, MD > > All teenagers should get a high school education - > even if they already know everything. << File: ATT5849298.txt >>
