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08-05-2007

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problems with aliases on Mac

so I have my .profile set up as such

Code:

##
# DELUXE-USR-LOCAL-BIN-INSERT
# (do not remove this comment)
##
echo $PATH | grep -q -s "/usr/local/bin"
if [ $? -eq 1 ] ; then
    PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
    export PATH
fi

# Aliases
ALIAS=~/.alias
export ALIAS
.$ALIAS

and my .alias as

Code:

# begin .alias

alias del="rm -i"
alias dir="ls -al"
alias search="grep"
alias edit="vim"

now I must have screwed up because none of my aliases work :*(
Im sure its cause Im a *nix noob

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