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bjlockie
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:35 pm Post subject: alias

Why does the alias do nothing but the full command works? alias ff='/usr/local/firefox/firefox' /usr/local/firefox/firefox

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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject: Re: alias

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bjlockie wrote:

Why does the alias do nothing but the full command works?
alias ff='/usr/local/firefox/firefox'

/usr/local/firefox/firefox

On my gentoo, this worked:

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alias ff=/usr/bin/firefox

Is your path wrong?

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