[X-Unix] Beginner Questions: alias for SSH tunnel

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May dm87 at proparallax.com assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| So, I have put this line of code in both .bashrc and .bash_profile:
| 
| 	alias ftpME="sudo ssh -L 5000:www.mydomain.com:21 
| username at www.mydomain.com
                           ^i assume you have double quotes here

| 	-bash: ftpME: command not found

Generally when bash is started the first file that is sourced is the
.bash_profile.  A strange question, after you changed the .bash_profile
file did you open a new shell? The changes wont take effect until you
resource the file. This can be done by either starting a new shell or
typing:

source ~/.bash_profile

Other than that, it looks ok to me.

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