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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers kill script using alias name Post 302434597 by drl on Saturday 3rd of July 2010 04:55:16 PM
Old 07-03-2010
Hi.

Also:
Quote:
Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the
expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt ...

For almost every purpose, aliases are superseded by shell functions.
-- excerpt from man bash q.v., which has more to say on aliases, mostly to the point that one should be using functions instead.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

Last edited by drl; 07-03-2010 at 10:09 PM.. Reason: ( Edit 1: minor typo )
 

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME
shells - shell database SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser- shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root. A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored. The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list. Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)). FILES
/etc/shells lists shells on system SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4) SunOS 5.10 4 Jun 2001 shells(4)
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