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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers A very simple script, but alias won't work Post 302423613 by sssccc on Friday 21st of May 2010 12:21:59 PM
Old 05-21-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by curleb
Permissions typically cascade along the path, so be sure that your UID has access to execute along the entire path to your script.

Otherwise, if your script is exclusively to set the named alias...just add this to your . file and have it set on login.

csh...bad! Smilie

Code:
ls -ld .

I don't have problem executing other scripts. Only the alias command is not working.

Setting it on login kinda defeats the purpose. This is a script that I want to run on the fly passing a parameter to the script and might run it several times during a session with different parameters. For example, I would like to eventually modify the alias command to some thing like this:

alias ss "vi $1.log"
alias tt "vi $1.txt"
alias kk "vi $1.ksh"

and run the script just by typing al myfile to set the 3 aliases as above pointing to myfile.
 

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FINGER.CONF(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual						    FINGER.CONF(5)

NAME
finger.conf -- finger(1) alias configuration file DESCRIPTION
The optional finger.conf file is used to provide aliases that can be fingered by local and network users. This may be useful where a user's login name is not the same as their preferred mail address, or for providing virtual login names than can be fingered. Lines beginning with ``#'' are comments. Other lines must consist of an alias name and a target name separated by a colon. A target name should be either a user, a forward reference to another alias or the path of a world readable file. Where an alias points to a file, the contents of that file will be displayed when the alias is fingered. FILES
/etc/finger.conf finger(1) alias definition data base EXAMPLES
# /etc/finger.conf alias definition file # # Format alias:(user|alias) # # Individual aliases # markk:mkn john.smith:dev329 john:dev329 sue:/etc/finger/sue.txt # # Network status message # status:/usr/local/etc/status.txt # # Administrative redirects # root:admin postmaster:admin abuse:admin # # For the time being, 'sod' is sysadmin. # admin:sod SEE ALSO
finger(1) HISTORY
Support for the finger.conf file was submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in FreeBSD 4.2. BSD
August 16, 2000 BSD
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