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Subject: Re: Aliases for Aegis Commands
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In article <1632@dover.sps.mot.com>, turner%dover%oakhill%cs.utexas
   .edu.uucp@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Robert Turner)

> First I know this is a wimpy question, but what the heck.  I'm
> an old Aegis kind of guy slowing migrating to BSD on SR10+.
> What I'm looking for is a set of aliases for some of the more
> common Aegis commands, e.g. cpf, dlf, dlt, crd, crl, wd, etc.
> My fingers keep typing Aegis commands while my brain is saying
> BSD, BSD, BSD!
>
> Yes I know it would be a good learning exercise to create them
> myself, but being a good and lazy programmer I'd like to steal
> from someone else.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Robert

I have setup my path to include /com in my ~/.cshrc :
     set path = (.... /com)
This way, I do not need aliases for Aegis commands.
However because cd is built-in to csh and wd is built-in to /com/sh
at SR10+ (hmm, wonder if there is a /com/wd), I have to
     alias wd 'cd !*'
Futhermore, because ld (in /bin) is homonymous with /com/ld, I have
     alias ld 'ls !*'
Note you could use
     alias ld '/com/ld !*'
However, my ls has an alias of
     alias ls 'ls -AF !*'
which tells whether an object is a sub-dir, executable file, FIFO,
symbolic links or just a plain file.

Another pair of homonymous commands is help (/usr/bin/help for SCCS and
/com/help).  Sometimes, I need help on ACLs, so I need to type in
     help protection rights
To get the right "help", I have the alias
     alias help '/com/help !*'

If you are worried that you do not have the security of cpf, mvf, chn,
etc, use
     alias cp 'cp -i !*'
     alias mv 'mv -i !*'
     alias rm 'rm -i !*'
This will not copy files over existing ones.

Hope this helps.

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