Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 17:51:27 Patrick Boutilier wrote: >> On 12/22/2009 01:46 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: >> > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 17:30:44 Patrick Boutilier wrote: >> >> On 12/22/2009 01:13 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >>> In ~/.bashrc I have the following alias: >> >>> >> >>> alias yus='yum update --skip-broken' >> >>> >> >>> This no longer works since I installed F12. Any idea why? >> >> >> >> What is the result of running "alias" from the command line? >> > >> > alias l.='ls -d .* --color=auto' >> > alias ll='ls -l --color=auto' >> > alias ls='ls --color=auto' >> > alias vi='vim' >> > alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot >> > --show- tilde' >> > alias yus='yum update --skip-broken' >> >> alias has been added. What doesn't work? :-) >> >> > bash doesn't recognise the command. > > -bash: yus: command not found > > Anne I defined: alias yu="sudo yum --skip-broken update" the only differences being that I put the flag first, then the argument, and I used quotation marks, not apostrophes. I know there is a difference in bash between ' and ", but mine really DOES work (on both of my computers, for both me and root on each). Maybe try?
