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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Incorrectly using 'ls' in if/then alias Post 302806917 by Little on Tuesday 14th of May 2013 12:32:35 AM
Old 05-14-2013
is it a unix shell script.. if it is then i think syntax for creating alias is

Code:
alias LS='ls -l'

and the if/ then syntax is also different.

Code:
if [ "$a" = "abc" ]; then

elif [ "$b" = "cde" ]; then

else

fi

---------- Post updated at 10:02 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:54 AM ----------

just try this if it works

Code:
alias mydir='if [ "$a" = "abc" ] || [ "$a" = "def" ]; then
ls /$a/disks/abc/
elif [ "$a" = "ghi" ] || [ "$a" = "jkl" ]; then
ls /$a/disks/def/
else
echo "unrecognized var $a"
fi'

 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

alias

alias(4)							   File Formats 							  alias(4)

NAME

       alias - alias table file of encoding names

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/iconv/alias

DESCRIPTION

       This file contains the alias table of encoding names for iconv_open(3C).

       The format of the alias table is as follows:

	 "%s %s
", <variant encoding name>, <canonical encoding name>

       The string specified for the variant encoding name is case-insensitive. A line beginning with '#' is treated as a comment.

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       iconv(3C), iconv_close(3C), iconv_open(3C), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    2 Oct 2001								  alias(4)
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