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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Alias Usuage Post 302362563 by Ratna_Ranjan on Friday 16th of October 2009 12:42:26 PM
Old 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)
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