alias specific to a user - or is that possible?

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04-27-2006, 01:54 PM	#1
wahooee LQ Newbie Registered: Apr 2006 Posts: 1 Rep:	alias specific to a user - or is that possible? Is it possible to create an alias specific to a user on linux red hat 3.0? if so, what is the correct syntax? Thanks!

04-27-2006, 02:14 PM	#2
bulliver Senior Member Contributing Member Registered: Nov 2002 Location: Edmonton AB, Canada Distribution: Gentoo x86_64; Gentoo PPC; FreeBSD; OS X 10.9.4 Posts: 3,760 Blog Entries: 4 Rep:	Do you mean a bash alias? If so just add it to ~/.bashrc like so: Code: alias foo='foo -d'

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