adding shortcuts for command line
 

Hi

I'm trying to set a couple of shortcuts for command line, for example, when I type "ls", I want it to "ls -lh" .

I have done this before and I'm sure that it was done by adding an alias in ~/.bashrc or something, but I can't remember at all.

Can anyone refresh my memory?

I'm running Suse 8.2

regards
Hamish

Re: adding shortcuts for command line
 

yes, it's in ~/.bashrc. ex:

alias ls='ls -lh'

In your ~/.bashrc you can add:

alias lsl='ls -lh --color=tty'

Then:

source .bashrc

This will make it work immediatly. It will only work for that user.

JN

Thanks so much guys, it is now sorted.

Much appreciated.
Hamish

If you want all users to have this, then you put it in /etc/bashrc rather than each users ~/.bashrc

is that a hidden file, too? i don't have an /etc/bashrc -- my "global" bashrc settings are in /etc/profile, but maybe that's a slack thing?

Possibly - I haven't got Slack installed on VMW anymore so I can't verify that, sorry. But no, it shouldn't be a hidden file in /etc