12-03-2002
On IRIX 6.5 (and perhaps earlier versions and/or other Unixes), /bin/sh is the korn shell. As with the other reply so far, edit the .profile. But if you are using the Bourne shell (the usual /bin/sh), there are no aliases, though you may be able to create a function.
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praliases(1) General Commands Manual praliases(1)
NAME
praliases - print system-wide sendmail aliases
SYNOPSIS
file] file] [key ...]
DESCRIPTION
prints out the contents of the alias data base used by to resolve system-wide mail aliases. The alias data base is built with the command
or See sendmail(1M).
The options are:
Read the configuration file specified with this option instead of the default configuration file.
Accesses the alias database built from
file with the command
If this option is not used, accesses the database built from the default alias file
Note that accesses the database, not the alias file itself. If the alias file has changed since the alias database was last built, natu-
rally the output of cannot match the contents of the alias file.
Each key argument, if any, is looked up in the alias database. prints out the aliases to which each key expands in the form:
where mailing list can be a comma-separated list of addresses to which the key resolves.
Note
can be used by privileged users only.
RETURN VALUE
The utility exits with 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
DIAGNOSTICS
key was not found in the alias database.
EXAMPLES
The output reveals that is aliased to is aliased to and that there is no alias for the key
WARNINGS
Because supports NIS aliases, some NIS key-words may appear in the output. These key-words, which include and may be safely ignored; they
merely indicate that is properly updating the alias database.
AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
default alias file
default alias database
SEE ALSO
sendmail(1M).
praliases(1)