Re: [TCLUG:17715] Aliasing

[Chris McKinley <lamfada@lugh.net>]

as was mentioned earlier, with no explanation, /usr/ucb/ps will do 
what you expect.  When Sun went all SysV-ish, they kept the Berkeley 
style stuff around in /usr/ucb (get it?).  Anyway, the best PATH I have
found looks something like this:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/openwin/bin

the /opt/SUNWspro/bin is if you pay the $3K for Sun's compiler, but ALWAYS 
have your compiler (gcc, SUNWspro) before /usr/ucb, since /usr/ucb/cc 
is not really a compiler.  Hence, I like to have gcc in /usr/local.

-Chris

On Tue, 16 May 2000 Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com wrote:

> We have a mixture of AIX, Linux, and Solaris boxes, here -
> as such, most of the time I'm using ksh (sigh), but I've compiled
> bash on a lot of them.  I want the trick to work in ksh, too.  :)
> 
> Nick Reinking
> 
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> esper@usinternet.com, on 05/16/2000 12:30:38 PM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:17715] Aliasing
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> Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com said:
> > That doesn't work - you have to alias a command, not
> > just text.  :)
> 
> No, you can alias something to any text you want, it just normally gets
> ignored unless the alias matches the first word on the command line.  bash,
> however, has the space-at-the-end-of-another-alias trick, allowing you to do:
> 
> alias ps='ps '
> alias z='aux'
> ps z
> <system responds with ps aux output>
> 
> It _does_ work - I've done this example on two different systems. 
> Unfortunately, both of them only have bash and csh installed and I know
> nothing about csh, so I can't verify that it works in anything other than
> bash.
> 
> (Say, Nick - since aliasing is a shell function, what shell are you using,
> anyhow?)
> 
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