Creating an alias on universtiy server

[millwalll]

Hi all,

I need to make a alias and I am a little confussed how to do it. As some websites say it has to be in profile and other says it goes in bashrc.

on the server I have these files
bash_history
bash_profile
bashrc
cshrc
dtprofile
login
mysql_history
newsrc

I been trying to do this and think may have problem now as when I log in I get error it says bash_profile syntax error unexpected token 'fi'

many thanks

[coopstah13]

it can go in any file as long as that file gets sourced when you log in

.bashrc and .bash_profile are the most common to us

can you post exact error message or at least contents of the file?

[millwalll]

# Login shell
if [ -r $HOME/.bashrc ]; then
source $HOME/.bashrc

fi


that the bash_profile

and this is bash rc is

#Non-login interactive shells

# Set DISPLAY if coming from an X display and not already set.
if [ -z $DISPLAY ]; then
if [ $TERM ]; then
if [ `echo $TERM | grep xterm` ]; then export DISPLAY=`/usr/local/bin/xdisplay` ; fi
fi
fi


export PATH=~/bin:`/usr/local/bin/localpath -sh`:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:.
alias cake="php /proj/name/project/leader/cgi-bin/cake_1.2.5/cake/console/cake.php"

umask 022


however when i try it i get unknow bash command

thanks

[coopstah13]

nothing obviously wrong jumps out at me, hopefully someone else has better eyes

[elija]

Do you have the php cli package installed?

[millwalll]

I am not sure as this is university server we are using php so I would guess so

[elija]

OK, it may be a path issue...

Try running "which php" and using the full path in your script. If you get no response from which php then the cli is not installed

[coopstah13]

which command will only tell you if it is in your path or not, not if it is installed

you could try locate php instead

[elija]

locate will show everything with php in the name so you may get a lot of output.

I've just learned something about which. Thanks

[millwalll]

what I dont get if I try have it as alias it dont work if i type the command alias line into command line then type cake it works so it werid