08-07-2006
Alias commands
how do you alias a command... Like say I wanted kitten to exicute the command whoami. how would I do that?
Thank you for your time.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, i want make 1 alias with two commands include to do two things at the same time like this:
ex: do finger and last at the same time with only one word finla or something.
Thanks.-
/home/seba > finger dustin
Login name: dustin In real life: Dustin Feldman
Directory:... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: seba
3 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I've read the man on the alias command, and I am perplexed. I don't see a way to create an alias that will perform more than one command......is there a way to create an alias that is a string of a commands ? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: HikerLT
1 Replies
3. Programming
Hello all,
i've written a small piece of code that will read commands from standard input and executes the commands.
Its working fine and is execting the commands well. Accepting arguments too. e.g
#mkdir <name of the directory>
The problem is that its not letting me change the directory i.e... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Phrozen Smoke
4 Replies
4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can someone help me with an alias...? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: NetJones
1 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to log into a remote server transfer over a new config and then backup the existing config, replace with the new config.
I am not sure if I can do this with BASH scripting.
I have set up password less login by adding my public key to authorized_keys file, it works.
I am a little... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bash_in_my_head
1 Replies
6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Okay so I have an alias that looks like this:
ALIAS gscn {
MSG gscn Test1
MSG gscn Test2
MSG gscn Test3
MSG gscn Test4
MSG gscn Test5
}
How do I make it wait 5 seconds between each command before it executes the next one after that in order from top to bottom? I tried the TIMER... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: guitarscn
1 Replies
7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a few aliases set up on AIX servers in my .kshrc file. Some of them contain multiple commands that are piped together.
A simple example would be something like this:
# alias to list directory contents as root and sort by size.
alias lss='sudo ls -l | sort -nbk5'
When I call... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: derndingle
5 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there a way to create alias for commands and store then in a location where a certain group can run them. I also want anybody in that group to be able to add alias. I don't want them to access the /etc/environment or /etc/profile files to do so. If there needs to be a line added in either of... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: daveisme
1 Replies
9. AIX
Hi all,
I'm new in this forum.
I'm looking for the difference between the HACMP commands with the prefix "cl" and "cli".
The first type are under /usr/es/sbin/cluster/sbin directory and the second are under /usr/es/sbin/cluster/cspoc directory.
I know that the first are called HACMP for AIX... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: peppix
0 Replies
10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
If one:
$ find -name 'some expression' -type f > newfile
and then subsequently wants to create an alias file from each pathname the find command retrieved and the > placed within 'newfile', how would one do this? Ideally, the newly created alias files would all be in one directory.
I am... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Alexander4444
3 Replies
ali(1) General Commands Manual ali(1)
NAME
ali - list mail aliases (only available within the message handling system, mh)
SYNOPSIS
ali [-alias aliasfile] [-help] [-[no]list] [-[no]normalize] [-user useraddr] [-nouser] [aliases...]
OPTIONS
Specifies the alias file to be consulted by ali. You can specify more than one alias file, but each aliasfile must be preceded by -alias.
In addition to any alias files that you specify, ali consults the system alias file /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases.
You can set up an entry in your so that ali automatically consults an alias file. To do this, add the Aliasfile entry to your pro-
file. See mh_profile(4) for more information. Prints a list of the valid options to this command. Prints the addresses on separate
lines. If you do not specify the -list option, the addresses are separated by commas and printed on as few lines as possible.
Instructs ali to try to track down the official hostname of the address. This can be suppressed by using -nonormalize. The default
is -nonormalize. Displays all the aliases that contain a specific name. Instead of listing the addresses that each given alias
expands to, ali lists the aliases that expand to include each given address. You must specify the complete user name that you have
used in your alias file.
The defaults for this command are:
-alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases -nolist -nonormalize -nouser
DESCRIPTION
The ali command searches the specified mail alias files for each of the given aliases. It creates a list of addresses for those aliases,
and displays that list on the screen.
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Location of your mail directory. Location of your personal alias file.
EXAMPLES
The following example shows how the -user option can be used to list all the aliases containing the address Parker@Venus: % ali -user
Parker@Venus Parker@Venus: Group, Reviewers, Badminton
FILES
The user profile. The system alias file. The system password file. The system group file.
SEE ALSO
mh-alias(4)
ali(1)