alias and which in Ubuntu : moving from Fedora to Ubuntu

[Nils Kassube]

Kevin Wilson wrote:
> I am moving from Fedora to Ubuntu.
> 
> In Fedora , running "which AliasName" shows the alias.
> 
> For example, if I have
> 
> $alias myAlias='echo test'
> 
> $which myAlias
> alias myAlias='echo test'
>         /usr/bin/echo
> 
> In Ubuntu, this does not work.
> After:
> alias myAlias='echo test'
> Runnin:
> $which myAlias
> 
> shows nothing.

You can try the type command, even if it isn't exactly the same:

~/ > LC_ALL=C type myAlias
myAlias is aliased to `echo test'


Nils