Re: Path and/or alias finding

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:50:02 +0000, Robert Heller wrote:

At Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:42:40 +0200 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
 

 
On 2024-06-14 16:38, Lew Pitcher wrote:

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:35:02 +0000, db wrote:
 

On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 14:36:49 -0000 (UTC), db wrote:
>

I like to make life easy so I wrote a one-line script for extracting the
contents of a tar file. I copied it into the /bin directory so I can run
it from anywhere.

[snip]

Why doesn't it work from bin/ ?

>
Red face time.
I just found out that I have an alias called tarx in
my .bashrc. In fact, someone asked me about this and
I answered in the negative, without checking. My apologies!

 
Apology accepted. :-)
 
Glad you found (and presumably fixed) your problem.

 
 
What command would show what exact incantation is used? Ie, what
path/binary, or what alias?
 
which tarx?

[snip]

But it is an alias in my system

 
This depends on the shell...
 
marchhare% which dir
dir:     aliased to ls -F -C
marchhare% echo $SHELL
/bin/tcsh

16:22:25 $ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

16:22:28 $ alias
alias tarx='tar -xf'

bash(1) says
  "Aliases are created and listed with the alias command,
   and removed with the unalias command."

--
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"