Never mind. Helps if you have an even number of quotes in a line.
So one elephant says to another, "You'll never believe what happened last night. I was trying on Groucho Marx's pajamas--and he shot me!" Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Wolfe, Gordon W > Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:50 PM > To: IBM LINUX-VM-L (E-mail) > Subject: alias in SLES9 > > Here's a wierd one: > > I issue the command alias x="/usr/bin/the" to set up a shortcut for the > hessling editor. It works from the command line. > > The same command placed inside /etc/profile.local doesn't create the alias. > /etc/profile.local has read/execute permissions for everyone and other > commands in there do execute. I only have trouble with alias. > > Any ideas? > > So one elephant says to another, "You'll never believe what happened last > night. I was trying on Groucho Marx's pajamas--and he shot me!" > Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 > VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
