The USE OF ALIAS

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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

  The simplest way that comes to mind, is to have all your aliases in their own
file. (i.e. '.alias')  Your own .login can source them when needed, and you can
also source them when you are 'su'ed.


  In your .login:

	if ( -f .alias ) source .alias


  And while su'ed:

	su at machine% source /home/yourlogin/.alias

  Your aliases are now overlayed on top of the aliases specified by the su'ed
account.


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