alias

[Nix, Robert P.]

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.

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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
> 
> 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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