alias

[Jeff Vian]

Nix, Robert P. wrote:

>Everyone has given fixes, but nobody has explained why his original command didn't work.
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>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.
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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 at redhat.com [SMTP:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Clair Garman
>>Sent:	Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:31 AM
>>To:	fedora
>>Subject:	Re: alias
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>>On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 07:14, Spero Manolatos wrote:
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>>>I am using the sh shell.
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>>>Have tried to use alias in the following way:
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>>>Alias <string> <dir> 
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>>>Example:   alias ule /usr/local/etc
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>>>When I try to retrieve the alias using cd ule it does not work.
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>>>If I type alias then enter I do get a list with ule included?????
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>>I suggest the following:
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>>alias ule='cd /usr/local/etc'
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>>ule
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>>Clair Garman     301-270-2248   Takoma Park, MD 
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>>All teenagers should get a high school education - 
>>even if they already know everything. << File: ATT5849298.txt >> 
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