[X-Unix] shell alias in bash

[Brian Medley]

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 02:46:57AM +0200, R. Welz wrote:

> Hello.
> I am no shell expert but I need to have some aliasis:
> 
> In .bash_profile I had defined two aliasis (?)
> alias top='top -u'
> alias topold='top'
> 
> but a call to topold showed a top -u instead (sorted by %cpu).
> 
> So I changed the order:
> alias topold='top'
> alias top='top -u'
> and restarted Terminal.app
> 
> But topold still gives a cpu sorted output AND a call to alias:
> 
> My-Computer:~ user$ alias
> alias psseti='ps aux | grep seti'
> alias top='top -u'
> alias topold='top'
> 
> shouldn't that output be in the other order? What can I do?

Perhaps alias prints aliases in alaphabetical order?

> Can someone help, please?

Use this:
    alias topold='"top"'

$ alias i='echo from i'
$ alias j='i'
$ j
from i
$ alias j='"i"'
$ j
bash: i: command not found

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