From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: alias Date: 26 Sep 1992 19:06:06 GMT
I don't remember where the original author lived, but setting the
distribution to 'usa' when the principal developer of Linux lives in
Finland, and many other key contributors live in places such as the
UK, Germany, and Australia is not very friendly.
In article <2729@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> xain (Data) writes:
>Yes there is the command alias... the sintax is a little different
>than the unix version....
>Here is an example:
>
> Alias dir='ls -las'
Linux does not have the 'alias' command. Linux does not have any
command.
However, the 'standard' shell on most Linux systems, Bash, does have
the alias capability. Many other shells do as well. There is no
difference on how bash on Linux would handle aliases than bash on any
other system. Bash does handle aliases differently than the (t)csh
running on any system (Linux or other *ix-clone).
Also, the example you gave is wrong because 'bash' handles things (as
do most *ix programs) in a case sensitive fashion.
Follow ups are directed to comp.unix.shell, because this discussion
has little to do with Linux.
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