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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Defining an alias FreeBSD Post 302445206 by agama on Saturday 14th of August 2010 12:00:49 PM
Old 08-14-2010
Given FreeBSD and the # prompt which I take to be that you were logged in as root, Im assuming that you're running under csh/tcsh (the shell assigned to root by default when you install FreeBSD).

I was able to reproduce the problem, but only under FreeBSD (bugger is the host name)

Code:
bugger# alias foo="echo bar"
bugger# foo
foo: Command not found.
bugger# csh --version
tcsh 6.14.00 (Astron) 2005-03-25 (i386-intel-FreeBSD) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,rh,color,filec

When I try this with csh on a linux host it works fine. The version on linux is more recent, so this could just be a csh bug. I don't use csh, so unfortunately the only things I can offer are:

1) switch the login shell for root in /etc/password to ksh or bash.

2) check the version of csh on your host, and if its out of date with the FreeBSD ports collection upgrade it. No assurance that an upgrade will fix it, but it'd be worth the try if you want/need to use csh over ksh.

The version on my linux host is:
tcsh 6.15.00 (Astron) 2007-03-03 (i586-suse-linux) options wide,nls,lf,dl,al,kan,sm,color,filec

Hope this was of some use.
 

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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

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

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