[docholiday]

Hey,
I am learning to write some shell scripts and am running into a problem when I want to use tha alias command...

I include the line:
"alias ll /bin/ls -l"
but get an error saying that it can't find ll and it can't find ls...

What am I doing wrong? Other commands like ls or rm or echo etc. all work fine... it's just alias that's not working.

Any help would be appreciated.

Doc Holiday

[suthercd]

For Jaguar, which has tcshrc as its interactive shell,

alias ll 'ls -l'

alias lm 'ls -al | more'

Single quotes encase the command that is aliased if there are parameters or more than just the command.

HTH
Craig

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by docholiday:
Hey,
I am learning to write some shell scripts and am running into a problem when I want to use tha alias command...

Aliases are very useful in the interactive shell. They are not typically used in shell scripts however. Usually, an environment variable is used in a shell script instead.