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Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin Foo)
Mon Dec 7 10:32:47 1998
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 10:34:26 -0500
To: anna folinsky <kilroi@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199812071530.KAA21916@dysfunctional.mit.edu>
alias gives you a list of all your defined aliases, including some that are
system-wide (hence why you haven't seen them in your own .aliases).
by typing >> .alias, you told the computer to append a list of all your
defined aliases to the end of your .alias file.
-Edwin Foo
At 10:30 AM 12/7/98 EST, anna folinsky wrote:
>i accidentally typed in
>alias >> .alias
>instead of
>cat >> .alias
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