On 12/23/2009 04:04 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 23 December 2009 03:05:05 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> 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? >> > I tried this, but 'which yus' still returns the old one. Do I need > 'newaliases' or something? Nope, newaliases is for sendmail. :-) Does it still not work if you run the alias command from a shell prompt and then try yus ? alias yus='yum update --skip-broken' > > Anne > > > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-kde mailing list > fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org