The USE OF ALIAS

[Jeff Medcalf]

In article <5398 at uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bill at uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (William J. King) writes:
>
>anybody know how to use an alias from my .login when i have
>substituted user to another's?
>bill at uhccux.bitnet

I have a file called .alias, which contains all of my aliases.  In my .cshrc
file, I have a line source ~/.alias  (which also works when I am not in my
home directory).

This way, from anywhere in the filesystem, I can say source ~jeffm/.alias
to get my aliases (if I am su'd, otherwise, ~/.alias).  Or I can say source
~jeffm/.cshrc, which also sets my environment variables.

This is the most efficient way that I know.


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