Use a shell variable. In bash: export vhome=/usr/users/User37/olwe ----- Original message ----- From: "Olwe Bottorff" <galanolwe at yahoo.com> To: "Twin Cities LUG" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:09:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: [tclug-list] alias expansion I'm on a linux box at work that has an NIS/nfs file system location for my default HOME (/usr/users/User37/olwe), but the actual machine has a /home/olwe that's mine, too. I store big stuff on the local drive and go light on the virtual HOME. What I want to do is have an alias in my bash that expands out to that virtual address whenever I type it in. Just alias vhome="/usr/users/User37/olwe" doesn't auto expand at the command promt. I need a way to get it expanded or somehow preprocessed. Anyone seen this issue before? Olwe __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list