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Old 03-12-2008
Franklin52 Franklin52 is offline Forum Staff  
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Place the alias in your .bashrc file in your homedirectory:


Code:
alias utils='~/script.sh'

If you use the cron mechanism to execute your script use the whole path and not your alias, something like:


Code:
30 12 * * * /home/username/script.sh

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