Alias command

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at stealth.acf.nyu.edu
Tue Nov 14 04:00:52 AEST 1989


In article <15845 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>   Also, I fail to see how an alias is first going to delete a file,
> and *then* going to copy it to your NFS directory.

Open the file, unlink the file, cat the file to the new link, change the
modes of the new link. Even csh can do it. (grin)

---Dan



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