Command Compatibility

[Patrick]

Aliases are one way to make shortcuts to unix commands. I use to have 
lots of aliases, here are a few on mine now. Some I got from somewhere 
else and don't use. I like the copy/move/remove aliases. It has stopped 
my happy a__ from deleting the wrong file several times. Then I can just 
unalias or give specific switches to do other stuff.

alias .='ls'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias chmod='chmod -v -c'
alias cp='cp -iv'
alias d='dir'
alias dir='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=vertical'
alias f='finger'
alias la='ls -a'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias lo='logout'
alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'
alias ls-l='ls -l'
alias more='less -iM'
alias mv='mv -iv'
alias rm='rm -i'
alias v='vdir'
alias vdir='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=long'
alias win='/usr/bin/kill.gpm ; openwin'

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>On Thursday 09 October 2003 3:19 pm, Jason Clinton wrote:
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>>>The question comes up because a recent version of OS-X does NOT understand
>>>"dir".
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>>clintonj at athena clintonj $ which dir
>>/bin/dir
>>clintonj at athena clintonj $ qpkg -f /bin/dir
>>sys-apps/coreutils *
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>On my mandrake box it's /usr/bin/dir, which is from coreutils-4.5.7-1mdk, 
>which I found just after pressing "send".
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>I remember discovering this before, and wondering why it was a binary and not 
>just an alias for "ls", but deciding it wasn't worth persuing.
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>Which begs the question: what's the equivalent package for OS-X?
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