Hmmm. alias

[adams]

The reply to the solution on the alias problem raised an issue.

Are you using unbuntu/kubunutu 7.04?  Does

ps

show you are indeed running the bash shell?

The alias command is a "built-in" command.  If you run

which alias

it should not return anything.  That's what happens on my
system.

If I try your

sudo apt-get install alias

it will install

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libalias-perl

and only that package and in the process uninstalls three other
packages.

Hopefully your problem will not return in the future and if it
does you have a fix.  I personally like to know why something
happened in addition to the fix to make sure that it never
returns again.

In doing tutorials and slides I often times turn off the
DIR_COLORS because the output from ls with colors on is
quite ugly in a script file output.  For those of us that
have been around before the new terminals the option -F
holds a special warm spot in our command line options.  :-)

FYI



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