ALIAS STRANGE BEHAVIOR
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Thu Jan 17 06:46:23 AEST 1991
It seems likely to me that your aliases are not taking effect when you run
commands from inside "less" or via rsh because your .cshrc file is set up only
to define the aliases in an interactive shell, and the shells that are spawned
by less and by rsh are not interactive. That would be my first guess.
My second guess is that less is using /bin/sh to execute commands instead of
your SHELL, but that would not account for the problems you are having with
rsh.
My third guess is that less is using "/bin/csh -f" to prevent the
execution of your .cshrc file. Once again, however, that would not explain
the problems you are having with rsh.
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