Aliasing (was Re: tmpwatch problem)

> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:58:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote about Re: [Expert]
>
> tmpwatch problem:
> >On Wednesday 17 June 2009 12:43:00 Thomas Backlund wrote:
> >> Anne Wilson skrev:
> >> > For some reason I can't get tmpwatch to run on this laptop - it used
> >> > to.
> >> >
> >> > usr/sbin/tmpwatch --mtime --verbose 168 /home/anne/.tmp
> >>
> >> Is this a typo, or did you forget the initial /
> >
> >Hmm - you know how you see what you expect to see?  Sorry for the wasted
> >bandwidth.  I should have spotted that.  It does run now and has cleaned
> >up quite a large number of files.  Thanks
>
> If you'd set an alias in ~/.bashrc, you'd hardly be able to mistype it,
> even if it's gone from history.
>
> For example:
>
> alias broom='/usr/sbin/tmpwatch --mtime --verbose 168 /home/anne/.tmp'
>