alias - define or display aliases
alias [alias-name[=string] ...]
The alias utility shall create or redefine alias definitions or write the values of existing alias definitions to standard output. An alias definition provides a string value that shall replace a command name when it is encountered; see Alias Substitution .
An alias definition shall affect the current shell execution environment and the execution environments of the subshells of the current shell. When used as specified by this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, the alias definition shall not affect the parent process of the current shell nor any utility environment invoked by the shell; see Shell Execution Environment .
The following operands shall be supported:
Assign the value of string to the alias alias-name.
If no operands are given, all alias definitions shall be written to standard output.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of alias:
The format for displaying aliases (when no operands or only name operands are specified) shall be:
"%s=%s\n", name, value
The value string shall be written with appropriate quoting so that it is suitable for reinput to the shell. See the description of shell quoting in Quoting .
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
The following exit values shall be returned:
Default.
The following sections are informative.
Change ls to give a columnated, more annotated output:
alias ls="ls -CF"
Create a simple "redo" command to repeat previous entries in the command history file:
alias r='fc -s'
Use 1K units for du:
alias du=du\ -k
Set up nohup so that it can deal with an argument that is itself an alias name:
alias nohup="nohup "
The alias description is based on historical KornShell implementations. Known differences exist between that and the C shell. The KornShell version was adopted to be consistent with all the other KornShell features in this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, such as command line editing.
Since alias affects the current shell execution environment, it is generally provided as a shell regular built-in.
Historical versions of the KornShell have allowed aliases to be exported to scripts that are invoked by the same shell. This is triggered by the alias -x flag; it is allowed by this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 only when an explicit extension such as -x is used. The standard developers considered that aliases were of use primarily to interactive users and that they should normally not affect shell scripts called by those users; functions are available to such scripts.
Historical versions of the KornShell had not written aliases in a quoted manner suitable for reentry to the shell, but this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 has made this a requirement for all similar output. Therefore, consistency with this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 was chosen over this detail of historical practice.
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