topic Re: alias help in Operating System - HP-UX

alias help

Ash_4 — Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:30:14 GMT

hello,
How to export alias.
I have defined some alias in user .profile. but if i execute "ksh -o vi" i am not able to
execute the defined alias.
How to export the alias if i change the shell.

Thanks in adv.

Re: alias help

Sukant Naik — Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:51:19 GMT

Hi Ash,

Did you try using

alias -x

eg :
$ alias -x dir="ls -al"

Regards,
Sukant

Re: alias help

john korterman — Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:05:26 GMT

Hi,

try the following thread (the alias must be written in .kshrc)

http://support5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000007948716&admit=552267591+1029488447596+28353475

regards,

John K.

Re: alias help

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:06:08 GMT

Hi
You should define your alias in .kshrc and in the .profile you should have
ENV=.kshrc; export ENV