10-16-2009
Alias Usuage
Hi All
I am new to the Unix World.I have question about alias.I learnt that alias allows to have a small more familiar command or name to execute a long string.I understand that I use C shell command and emacs editor
I tried editing the .cshrc.common file in order to set my environment variables .Since I often have to open the file .cshrc.common in emacs editor.I tried setting a alias name
alias environ '.cshrc.common'
When I gave the command emacs environ, a new file called environ is opened in the emacs editor.How do i make unix understand that
"emacs environ" command is similar to "emacs .cshrc.common"
Is this a right approach?any help plz
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which(1) User Commands which(1)
NAME
which - locate a command; display its pathname or alias
SYNOPSIS
which [filename...]
DESCRIPTION
which takes a list of names and looks for the files which would be executed had these names been given as commands. Each argument is
expanded if it is aliased, and searched for along the user's path. Both aliases and path are taken from the user's .cshrc file.
FILES
~/.cshrc source of aliases and path values
/usr/bin/which
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
csh(1), attributes(5)
DIAGNOSTICS
A diagnostic is given for names which are aliased to more than a single word, or if an executable file with the argument name was not found
in the path.
NOTES
which is not a shell built-in command; it is the UNIX command, /usr/bin/which
BUGS
Only aliases and paths from ~/.cshrc are used; importing from the current environment is not attempted. Must be executed by csh(1), since
only csh knows about aliases.
To compensate for ~/.cshrc files in which aliases depend upon the prompt variable being set, which sets this variable to NULL. If the
~/.cshrc produces output or prompts for input when prompt is set, which may produce some strange results.
SunOS 5.10 26 Sep 1992 which(1)