Very Computer

Hello,
I am not new to UNiX, but I am new to the SunOS and Solaris.
I am having a problem defining aliases, and was hoping someone could
help me out.
I've tried both the csh and ksh/bash format, ie
alias lsa='ls -la'
alias lsa 'ls -la'
but neither of them work, when I type lsa it returns
'lsa' not found.

There are several terms defined and shown when I type alias (no args.)
but when I type one of those names it also tells me that the command
cannot be found.

I just bought this system, and I guess it is possible that the
previous S.A. did something funny to it, but I have never seen a
system before that wouldn't accept aliases.

BTW, I am logged in as root.

Thank you...

said:

Jack> Hello, I am not new to UNiX, but I am new to the SunOS
Jack> and Solaris.  I am having a problem defining aliases,

Shells should be the same everywhere...

Jack> and was hoping someone could help me out.  I've tried
Jack> both the csh and ksh/bash format, ie alias lsa='ls
Jack> -la' alias lsa 'ls -la' but neither of them work, when
Jack> I type lsa it returns 'lsa' not found.

Jack> There are several terms defined and shown when I type
Jack> alias (no args.)  but when I type one of those names
Jack> it also tells me that the command cannot be found.

Jack> BTW, I am logged in as root.

You are presumably in the vanilla Bourne shell then.  What
does "echo $SHELL" return?

What does "man -s1 sh" say about "alias"?

    tcsh% sh
    $ alias
    ...
    $ which alias
    /usr/bin/alias
    $ man alias
    ...

    (No behaviour specified for sh.)

Don't create aliases as root.  Bad bad bad.

hth
tony
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