Alias to change path on the fly

[Paul Chamberlain]

In article <1990Nov8.014515.13882 at cpsc.ucalgary.ca> paquette at cs-sun-fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) writes:
>I have come up with the following aliases to change which directory I will use
>...
>alias host '`echo set path=\($path\)|sed s/itaqc/itahost/|sed s/itasc/itahost/`'
>...

Untested but much more likely to succeed alias follows:

alias host 'set path=(`echo $path|sed s/itaqc/itahost/|sed s/itasc/itahost/`)'
...

But, if I were you, I'd do something like this (which I even tested):

alias host 'set path=(`echo $path|sed "s/ita[a-z]*/itahost/"`)'

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