How do I run a shell?

[Marius Bock]

Or just create a dir alias for ls ... and then you do not have to worry
about anything else.

Marius

On 12/29/05, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at eskom.co.za> wrote:
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> I create a folder bin under my home directory.
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> I create a file called dir in bin. The contents of the file is simply one
> line "ls".
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> I add execute to the file properties.
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> I type dir in the terminal window.
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> In SuSe I get the listing from the ls.
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> In Ubuntu I get "command not found".
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> In Ubuntu, if I type ". dir", it works.
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> Help!
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> Bill
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