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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
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Subject: Re: Path and/or alias finding
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:24:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:50:02 +0000, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:42:40 +0200 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 2024-06-14 16:38, Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> > On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:35:02 +0000, db wrote:
>> > 
>> >> On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 14:36:49 -0000 (UTC), db wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I like to make life easy so I wrote a one-line script for extracting the
>> >>> contents of a tar file. I copied it into the /bin directory so I can run
>> >>> it from anywhere.
>> > [snip]
>> >>> Why doesn't it work from bin/ ?
>> >>
>> >> Red face time.
>> >> I just found out that I have an alias called tarx in
>> >> my .bashrc. In fact, someone asked me about this and
>> >> I answered in the negative, without checking. My apologies!
>> > 
>> > Apology accepted. :-)
>> > 
>> > Glad you found (and presumably fixed) your problem.
>> 
>> 
>> What command would show what exact incantation is used? Ie, what 
>> path/binary, or what alias?
>> 
>> which tarx?
[snip]
>> But it is an alias in my system
> 
> This depends on the shell...
> 
> marchhare% which dir
> dir:     aliased to ls -F -C
> marchhare% echo $SHELL
> /bin/tcsh

16:22:25 $ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

16:22:28 $ alias
alias tarx='tar -xf'

bash(1) says 
  "Aliases are created and listed with the alias command,
   and removed with the unalias command."

-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"