In article <3301 at solo9.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes: | alias exit 'source ~/.logout; unalias exit; eval \exit' Use: alias exit "source ~/.logout ; 'exit'" Aliasing doesn't happen on quoted names, which I often make use of when I really, really want to override my aliasing. jim frost software tool & die madd at std.com