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alias
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To avoid using four backslashes to represent a single backslash, use single quotes
rather than double quotes to enclose value, because the shell does not escape
characters enclosed in single quotes during assignment. As a result, the shell
escapes characters in single quotes only when expanding the alias.
Calling alias with name without any value assignment displays the function name
(name) and its associated string value (value) with appropriate quoting.
DBCS Recommendation: We recommend that you use singlebyte characters when
specifying an alias name, because the POSIX standard states that alias names
must contain only characters in the POSIX portable character set.
alias in the tcsh shell
Without arguments, alias in the tcsh shell prints all aliases. With name, alias prints
the alias for name. With name and wordlist, alias assigns wordlist as the alias of
name. wordlist is command and filename substituted. name may not be alias or
unalias.
See also unalias in the tcsh shell.
–r Removes all tracked aliases.
–t Makes each name on the command line a tracked alias. Each tracked alias
resolves to its full pathname; the shell thus avoids searching the PATH
directories whenever you run the command. The shell assigns the full
pathname of a tracked alias to the alias the first time you invoke it; the shell
reassigns a pathname the first time you use the alias after changing the
PATH variable.
When you enter the command:
set –h
each subsequent command you use in the shell automatically becomes a
tracked alias. Running alias with the –t option, but without any specified
names, displays all currently defined tracked aliases with appropriate
quoting.
–x Marks each alias name on the command line for export. If you specify –x
without any names on the command line, alias displays all exported
aliases. Only exported aliases are passed to a shell that runs a shell script.
Several aliases are built into the shell. Some of them are:
alias autoload="typeset –fu"
alias functions="typeset –f"
alias hash="alias –t"
alias history="fc –l"
alias integer="typeset –i"
alias nohup="nohup "
alias r="fc –s"
alias stop="kill –STOP"
alias suspend="stop \$\$"
You can change or remove any of these aliases, and the changes will remain in
effect for the current shell and any shell scripts or child shells invoked implicitly from
the command. These aliases are reset to their default built-in values each time a
new shell is invoked from the command line.
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