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04-20-2010

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Quote:

Originally Posted by verdepollo

You can also export aliases in KSH and use them in a subshell by adding the -x flag, as long as your script does not call again the interpreter (the hashbang).

Code:

alias -x ll="ls -l"

Whether that works or not is dependent also on the implementation of fork and exec.

For example on Solaris:

Code:

$ alias -x lsal='ls -al'

$ cat myLS
lsal

$ ./myLS
total 106
drwxr-xr-x  40 root     root        1024 Apr 14 20:08 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          30 Apr 21 00:08 ogl_select306
-r--r--r--   1 root     root          11 Apr 21 00:08 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt   2 root     root         176 Apr 21 00:08 .X11-unix
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         176 Apr 21 00:08 .X11-pipe
drwxr-xr-x   2 noaccess noaccess     177 Apr 21 00:08 hsperfdata_noaccess
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         296 Apr 21 00:10 breg_business_logic_20100421121008806.log
drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         177 Apr 21 00:10 .ICE-unix
drwxrwxrwt   3 root     root         182 Apr 21 00:10 OraTemp
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         262 Apr 21 00:10 rootswup.trc
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         178 Apr 21 00:10 hsperfdata_root
drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root         184 Apr 21 00:10 .removable
drwxrwxrwt   9 root     sys          956 Apr 21 00:11 .
-rwx------   1 root     root           7 Apr 21 00:14 myLS

BSD:

Code:

$ alias -x lsal='ls -al' 

$ ./myLS
./myLS: line 1: lsal: not found

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