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Operating Systems Solaris Alias is not working under Bourne Shell Post 302959424 by RudiC on Monday 2nd of November 2015 01:24:14 PM
Old 11-02-2015
The first you seem to run unser sh, the second under bash. What be the results of alias HC in either?
 

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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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