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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:40:07 -0500
From:      "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com>
To:        David Loszewski <davidl@metro2000.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Aliasing problems
Message-ID:  <20020320204007.A25284@smnolde.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C9937AC.3080506@metro2000.net>; from davidl@metro2000.net on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:30:20PM -0500
References:  <3C9937AC.3080506@metro2000.net>

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David Loszewski(davidl@metro2000.net)@2002.03.20 20:30:20 +0000:
> I seem to be having problems aliasing programs within just about any 
> startup file.  If I try to do something as simple as:
> 
> alias ls "ls -F"
> 
> in the .xinitrc file and then try to sh it I get:
> 
> alias: ls not found
> alias: ls -F not found
> 
> why would this be happening? this happens with anything that I try to 
> alias but if I try to alias it temporarily at the console it works fine.
> 
> This email address is not yet subscribed with freebsd.org because I was 
> using my mediaone.net account before.  So please send any replies to 
> davidl@metro2000.net
> 
> Thx,
> Dave
> 

Put that in your .profile or .bash_profile with the other aliases.

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Scott Nolde
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