aliases

[Chris W. Parker]

Matt Hollingsworth <mailto:maudit at adelphia.net>
    on Friday, February 27, 2004 8:59 PM said:

> I'm still very green at this, so am not sure of what PATH the run
> command window looks at when it launches.  Does it have it's own "."
> file?  Or, does it just exist before a shell does, so isn't looking
> at any shell specific file for prefs?

you can find your PATH definition in ~/.bash_profile.

alternatively, have you tried setting an absolute path?

alias xyz = '/path/to/file'


hth,
chris.