1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to create a command alias. I know what shell I'm using, I just don't know which file to inter the command alias. When I type "echo $SHELL" the output is as follows: bin/sh If I'm correct, this is the bourne shell. Does anyone know which file to edit in this particular shell? Thanks. (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Some Unix systems won't enable you to do the following. What danger do you see lurking in this alias? (a) alias who (b)who -a Do you know it? Thanks! (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi 'm executing a java program from my shell script on solaris 9 as $JAVA_HOME\bin\java -ms32m -mx128m -classpath $CLASSPATH com.abc.fwk,abcServer.abcfwkServer $1 & where $1 is port number when i do ps -ef, it shows whole command , i want to give this some alias name as abcProcess, so... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

how do I alias the following command: ls -l |egrep 'drw|dr-|d--|d-w' The alias command needs single quotes and so does the above command, so this does not work: alias LSDIR 'ls -l |egrep 'drw|dr-|d--|d-w' ' My problem is how do I get a listing of only directories? Solaris 8 SUN Ultra 10... (4 Replies)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

How can I embed alias command inside the unix script? Script: echo "...." ... ... alias aa=/usr/bin/telnet ... ...The above script is not working. If I type aa hostname in the command prompt 'TELNET' terminal is not opening. Regards,... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Please could someone advise me the command - to set up aliases commands within a .profile using shell sh regards venhart (13 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi guys i m making one alias which will set variable , invoke sqlplus and also set prompt of sqlplus,,i have made successfully upto invoking sqlplus in unix but cant pass command in sqlplus here is the command alias sett='export ORACLE_SID=devdb2;sqlplus system/system@test' now this... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Friends, I have added some aliases in .bash_profile file under the root folder. Its works fine and very useful, but does not go well with cp command. alias deploy="cd /usr/local/tomcat/webapp" alias artifacts="cd /usr/local/artifacts" but when i try to cp from artifacts folder... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm attempting to configure shell settings in my new Macbook. The standard unix command line 'alias' doesn't seem to be working: bash-3.2$ alias dir ls -la bash: alias: dir: not found bash: alias: ls: not found bash: alias: -la: not found bash-3.2$ alias dir 'ls -la' bash:... (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi there, I'm trying to setup sudo privileges for a user, Oracle in this case, to run Unix commands like mv,chmod, chown, mkdir, rmdir against their own set of commands or scripts. Is there an easier way to do this than to give Unix commands for each of their respective commands as shown below... (2 Replies)