creating shortcut

[m2001331]

Hi all,
I am new to unix - aix especially.
i tried to create a shortcut for a folder that located deep down - eg./abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno
therefore i went to the .profile of the respective user supertester
and added
alias abc='cd /abc/def/ghi/jkl/mno'
and saved and perfomed ./.profile
however when i issue abc at prompt, it says abc not found.
i wonder why it get committed even after executing ./.profile.
I was logged on as supertester all the while.
please advice.
thanks.

 

[bi]

You have to "dot" the .profile to run it again. Type this:

. /.profile

I'm not sure the single quotes are what you want. I'm not at a system now and so can't test it or check my .profile for aliases.

 

[m2001331]

hi thanks for the reply.the problem was resolved when i logged out as supertester and logged in back.
thats a strange behaviour though.
thanks.

 

[comtec17]

If you do . /.profile you will not have to logout. You will need a space between the first . and the /

 

[bi]

As I said.

Or, rather than logging all the way out, you could have done:

su - username

Note the space-hyphen-space after su.

But the most efficient way is to do the . /.profile