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Operating Systems AIX Alias Command in Bourne Shell Post 302510071 by pchegoor on Friday 1st of April 2011 12:56:16 PM
Old 04-01-2011
Question Alias Command in Bourne Shell
Hi

My Unix sever is AIX 5.3. My Login shell ( using echo $SHELL) is /bin/sh implying it is a Bourne Shell. My Question is that i am still able to use Alias command to create/retrieve aliases. I have read in several sites on Unix online that the Bourne Shell does not support Aliases but only Shell functions. So what am i missing here?Is there a way to explain this discrepancy?


Thanks Smilie,
Last edited by pchegoor; 04-01-2011 at 02:13 PM..
 

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cpanplus::shell

CPANPLUS::Shell(3pm)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				      CPANPLUS::Shell(3pm)

NAME

       CPANPLUS::Shell - base class for CPANPLUS shells

SYNOPSIS

	   use CPANPLUS::Shell; 	    # load the shell indicated by your
					    # config -- defaults to
					    # CPANPLUS::Shell::Default

	   use CPANPLUS::Shell qw[Classic]  # load CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic;

	   my $ui      = CPANPLUS::Shell->new();
	   my $name    = $ui->which;	    # Find out what shell you loaded

	   $ui->shell;			    # run the ui shell

DESCRIPTION

       This module is the generic loading (and base class) for all "CPANPLUS" shells. Through this module you can load any installed "CPANPLUS"
       shell.

       Just about all the functionality is provided by the shell that you have loaded, and not by this class (which merely functions as a generic
       loading class), so please consult the documentation of your shell of choice.

BUG REPORTS

       Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>.

AUTHOR

       This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

       This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic, cpanp

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