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Old 05-27-2008
Data sourcing the .bashrc
Hello,

I am quite new to Linux... I need to set some aliases and I can't get it to work. Can somebody tell me what's wrong?

I modified the .bashrc file in my home directory. I added:

alias pmv= '/home/vera/MGLTools-1.4.5/share/bin/pmv'

saved it and ran source .bashrc

The shell returned a line:

if: Expression Syntax

and the alias does not work. (Command not found.) The shell used is tcsh. Is there something wrong in the syntax of the alias? (the path is correct).

Thanks a lot!
# 2  
Old 05-27-2008
Try without the space around the = sign:
Code:
alias pmv='/home/vera/MGLTools-1.4.5/share/bin/pmv'

# 3  
Old 05-27-2008
Still the same result Smilie But thanks a lot!
# 4  
Old 05-27-2008
try these... one of these should work

pmv='/home/vera/MGLTools-1.4.5/share/bin/pmv'

alias pmv '/home/vera/MGLTools-1.4.5/share/bin/pmv'

pmv '/home/vera/MGLTools-1.4.5/share/bin/pmv'
 
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