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I don't know where this should go ... but how do I make a command that when a user types "news", they get displayed the server news. I'm thinking of having a text file that contains the news and having a command that just does "cat newsfile" or something of that sort... but how do I make the command "news" that does "cat newsfile" available for all users on the system?
Originally posted by wenberg I don't have the file /etc/bashrc. Where should alias' be put? I'm using Slackware 9.1 Thanks in advance.
By default Slackware doesn't create or have a .bashrc file, you'd have to create one. If you don't want to do that, just simply put your aliases in /etc/profile
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