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Name: Sponge Bob
Date: March 15, 2002 at 14:06:34 Pacific
Subject: PWD and OLDPWD

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I am using SCO OpenServer Release 5. I have created a .bashrc file with aliases, but the I get errors telling me these alias not found or invalid alias. I removed them all except the one below:
alias myhome "cd /usr/myhome/myhomepath"
I also tried this with single quotes. I'm sort of new to shell programming. Can someone tell me what I might be doing wrong.

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Name: James Boothe
Date: March 15, 2002 at 14:29:24 Pacific
Subject: PWD and OLDPWD

Reply: (edit)

I'm not familiar with bash, but for ksh the syntax needs an equal sign, with no spaces before or after:
alias myhome="cd /usr/myhome/myhomepath"
Also, doing "cd" with no parameter will put you in your home directory (it goes to $HOME).

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