Michael Marsh wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:50:54 -0800, Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote:OK. After getting rid of the alias there are several that work correctly for me.Just curious -- how *exactly* did you set up the alias? I've tried alias ls="ls -la" and the behavior is still correct. With the alias, did "ls", "\ls -la", and "ls -la" actually return different things?
I set it up as alias ls="ls -al --color=always". On one of the IT sites I spend a fair amount of time on a *nix admin with quite a few years experience said he has run into problems using aliases on some machines too, so I guess it isn't unknown. I thought it was pretty strange that it screwed things up too, but it certainly did make a difference.