Virtually everything we've said about aliases applies to the Korn shell ( ksh ) and bash . One thing that's different is the syntax of the alias command, which is:
$alias
name
=definition
That is, you need an equal sign (no spaces) between the name and the definition. A good guideline is to use single quotes (
'
) around the
definition
unless you're doing something specialized and you understand how
quoting (
8.14
)
works in aliases.
You also can't put arguments inside an alias as the C shell's
\!
operator (
10.3
)
does. To do that, use a
shell function (
10.9
)
.
Korn shell aliasing is "overloaded" with a few other functions - like keeping track of the locations of executables. However, this shouldn't prevent you from defining your own aliases as you need them.
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