Re: [TCLUG:17715] Aliasing

[Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>]

Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com said:
> I always forget that I'm on Solaris, and I was wanting
> to alias 'ps aux' to 'ps -ef' - but I can't get anything to work.
> 
> Any suggestions?

bash-specific solution:

IIRC, aliases can only be a single word.  However, in bash, an alias ending
with a space has its arguments checked for aliases also - normally, only the
first word in checked.  So...

alias ps='ps '
alias aux='-ef'

should do the trick.

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