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How do i call aliases from my .profile?

Hello all,

Please my shell is ksh. I created .profile such that users can pick environments they want to use:

Code:

echo Select your Environment!!

echo " 1. Nigeria DEV"
echo " 2. UEMOA DEV"
echo " 3. CEMOA DEV"

echo "Make your choice : \c"
read choice

if [ $choice = 1 ]
then
...
fi

if [ $choice = 2 ]
then
...
fi

Also i have different aliases files for each of those environment:

.aliases_UE
.aliases_NG
.aliases_CE

Please can someone just tell me how to call each aliases of its environment within the if clause ... I have tried using:

Code:

if [ $choice = 1 ]
then
...
. .aliases_NG
...
fi

It didn't work.

Thank you.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mofaloks

Code:

if [ $choice = 1 ]
then
...
. .aliases_NG
...
fi

It didn't work.

How didn't it work? Did you get an error, or what?

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Hi CarloM,

The aliases doesn't work after the .profile is run. For example, an alias is

Code:

alias l='ls -lrt'

. If after you run the .profile, and you do

Code:

at a prompt, it doesn't list. Same goes for all other alias shortcuts, they don't work.

Code:

/finusers/UBADEV> l
ksh: l:  not found.

Thanks.

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Hi,

what do you see if you just type

Code:

alias

at a command prompt.

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Dave

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When you say "run the .profile" how did you do this?
You have to source the profile in order to make it affect your current shell (like you did when you invoked the alias scripts in .profile):

Code:

. .profile

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gull04,

Code:

[UBADEVNG/FINCORE]>/finusers/UBADEV> alias
autoload='typeset -fu'
command='command '
functions='typeset -f'
hash='alias -t -'
history='fc -l'
integer='typeset -i'
local=typeset
nohup='nohup '
r='fc -e -'
stop='kill -STOP'
suspend='if [[ ${0#-} = $0 ]] ; then kill -STOP $$; else dspmsg -s 1 ksh.cat SUSPEND "suspend: cannot suspend login shell
"; fi '
type='whence -v'

---------- Post updated at 02:36 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:35 PM ----------

cero,

yes that's how i ran (or source) the .profile

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mofaloks

Code:

if [ $choice = 1 ]
then
...
. .aliases_NG
...
fi

It didn't work.

Thank you.

not much to go on, so just a shot in the dark:

try:

Code:

 
. ./.aliases_NG

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