07-03-2012
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I use a lot of text edditing on my laptop, and about a year and half ago I read my first unix bootk which gave the noclobber command and how to unset it.. now that my files are some what overflowing I need to use noclobber or the set -C option... I know the >| to override the no overwite command... (2 Replies)
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2. Programming
Hi.
I have a C program that is using the **environ pointer and I am trying to set up aliases for a system("/bin/ksh") call. This works for other environment variables but not for the aliases. Does anyone know if this can be done? Thanks ahead of time. (1 Reply)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello:
i have several server with own etc aliases. right now i want to combine it all into a general etc aliases in a new freebsd server. cause it consist hundred thousand of record user inside how to make a shell script to combine it or configure it.
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
i am calling a function multiple time which uses getopts to parse function arguments.
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How come if I set an alias as such:
alias dt 'date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"'
it will work as intended, ie the command 'dt' does prompt the date and time, but not when invoked through a script as such:
#!/bin/sh
alias dt 'date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"'
The OS is FreeBSD 7.1.
Thanks in advance (4 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am new to Unix. I want to know how to setup aliases in Unix. Mean if i write a particular word say scripts then it should take me to scripts directory.
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
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9. HP-UX
Hi folks,
How can I make an alias in HP-UX? I've tried to add something just like this
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
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praliases
praliases(1) General Commands Manual praliases(1)
NAME
praliases - display system mail aliases
SYNOPSIS
praliases [-f filename] [--] [alias_name...]
OPTIONS
Displays the aliases using the specified dbm file instead of the system aliases file.
OPERANDS
The alias name to find. If no aliases are given, then the entire contents of the dbm file are displayed.
DESCRIPTION
The praliases command displays system aliases used by the sendmail(8) program. If no arguments are given, the praliases command displays
all of the system aliases contained in the file /var/adm/sendmail/aliases.
An alternative file can be specified using the -f option.
Specific aliases can be displayed by specifying one or more alias names.
[Tru64 UNIX] Aliases can be created either with or without the terminating null character ('