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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting created a .alias, but they won't take (ksh) Post 302441631 by hindesite on Sunday 1st of August 2010 11:48:34 PM
Old 08-02-2010
created a .alias, but they won't take (ksh)
I login with a common username, and have no access to the different login scripts for my personalizations. So for a while, I would hobble on over to a directory I made for myself, and then bring in my alias file where I would fix my backspace, create a few aliases, etc.:

Code:
$ ./.alias
$

Now it no longer works. Kinda odd, but if I create my aliases manually, they take, but via script they do not.

Ideas?

- hindesite
 

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suspend

suspend(1)							   User Commands							suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

   ksh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

ATTRIBUTES

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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

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