permanant aliases
 

Hi,

I am trying to get some aliases to stick. I am running SuSE 9.1 pro. My default shell is bash. I don't have a .bashrc in my home directory. I also heard that there should be a profile.local in the /etc directory but I don't have one of those either.

Also what type of syntax would I write the entries in? is just alias aliasname=command or do I need to do some scripting.

thanks,
-me

Does anything in your home directory start with .bash say .bash_profile?

The line you want to add would look like:

alias ll='ls -l'

.bash_history

(Embarrased) I found a .bashrc (was looking at a different system). so I just drop those lines at the bottom of the .bashrc file and log out?

thanks again

-Me

Yep logout and back in and they'll work.

Thanks it worked,,,

So how would I make this availbe to all users?

It depends on your distro.
On debian e.g. this would be /etc/bash.bashrc

Check in your /etc dir for a file similar to that one.