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Old 11-20-2008
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I have created a shortcut for the file kill_process.sh as shown below.

alias kill_process="sh /root/kill_process.sh"

It is working as per my expectations. But I have 2 questions.
1) Is there any better way?
2) How do I check what does kill_process link to?
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Old 11-20-2008
hi,
You don't really need an alias do You? Name the program file kill_process, make it executable (chmod +x kill_process) and place it somewhere in Your PATH, in /usr/local/sbin for example. To show Your aliases, use the command alias without arguments.

/Lakris
 
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