Nix, Robert P. wrote:
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.
The output of 'man alias' was posted earlier that explained why it did
not work
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-----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
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