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Can you check this alias?
Hi, I need to create an alias named vi that runs the command /usr/ucb/vi to edit text files. The alias shold turn off the notification of new emails using the biff cmd before executing the vi cmd and turn biff back on after the vi cmd.
What I found on vi in man is /usr/bin/vi ....[+command |-command]filename...
What is this "ucb"? I came up with sth like this:
alias vi ' /usr/ucb/vi +biff n | -biff y '
vi filename
Thanks in advance.
 
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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)