alias

nobu · 01-10-2003, 10:07 PM

How do I set alias permanently in slackware?
Where is the file contains aliases?

leed_25 · 01-10-2003, 10:53 PM

consult the man page for your shell. for bash, i like to put them in
~/.profile

krymsunmortis · 01-11-2003, 12:04 AM

Normally ,when useing bash in general, If you want to have something aliased globally for all users you put something like
alias='command goes here '
in your ~/.bashrc file .

Now the neat thing is Slackware8.1 that came with the linux format magazine seems to have for some reason no bashrc file anywhere on the machine once installed
and yes the default shell is bash.

if you do have a slackware bashrc file good luck

tunedLow · 01-11-2003, 02:04 AM

You can create one if you like and bash will read it.

krymsunmortis · 01-11-2003, 08:27 AM

Thanks wasn't sure if you could create one and if bash would read it proprely or not. I had already did a search online for bashrc to find some examples to try that but was going to wait and see if recompileing bash on the system would work or not.

Thanks again

leed_25 · 01-11-2003, 01:09 PM

I am so sorry. I posted my earlier reply without so much as
checkink my setup --my earlier reply is shit. Here's my
~/.bash_profile:

Quote:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
. ~/.profile
. ~/.ksh_environ

this allows me to use the same setup for bash and ksh, which I use
occasionally. The alias definitions are in ~/.ksh_environ