creating shortcuts to executables on IRIX64 6.5

Question

I'm telnetting into an IRIX 64 server and I'm trying to create shortcuts to emacs, gvim, and other executables that are stored in a certain directory. I tried using the alias command on the command line in the following manner:

alias gvim="/usr/.../gvim"
alias emacs="/usr/.../emacs"
...

but whenever I try this and run emacs/gvim, it still doesn't work. And when I run alias -p, nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '12 at 18:45

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From what I found, IRIX uses csh as its default shell. Thus its syntax is different: rather than alias foo=bar you use alias foo bar.

Try

alias gvim /usr/.../gvim
alias emacs /usr/.../emacs

answered May 24 '12 at 18:45

Renan

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Oh, ya that works. How do I make it so that my shortcuts will exist every time I start my terminal? Is there some sort of .cshrc or .tcshrc for it? – de1337ed May 24 '12 at 18:51
You can use `.cshrc`. – Renan May 24 '12 at 18:55

creating shortcuts to executables on IRIX64 6.5

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