Global Aliases--Nothing is working!

mooreted · 06-15-2004, 09:53 AM

I followed every instruction here for creating aliases and none of them work.

Here's what I want to do:

Open Konqueror
Open a directory
Hit CTRL+T to open a terminal
Type in an alias to run a command on many files

I put aliases in /etc/profile, ~.profile, I created a profile.alias in /etc. No matter what I do I cannot set a global alias. There are a couple of aliases I want to work everywhere no matter how I am logged in.

Currently, if I su to root or hit CTRL+T to open a terminal there are no aliases shown at all. Typing "alias" show absolutely nothing. If I click on the taskbar and open a terminal, there are the aliases.

This is very annoying.

Is there a way to set global aliases in Slackware 9.0

LNXman · 06-15-2004, 11:31 AM

The way which I would set up global aliases (using your sequence as a guide) would be:

- Create a global alias file under /etc ( I would call it aliasrc )
- Within the newly created file, I would type all the aliases I want to create.
Example:

Code:

            #alias format
            #alias <alias_name>='<command>'
             alias myls='ls -al'

- Load the newly created alias file using the global profile under /etc by adding a conditional statement.
Example:

Code:

             #if statement to load global aliases
             #load the global alias if the file exists, and it is readable
              if [ -f /etc/aliasrc  -a -r /etc/aliasrc ], then
                . /etc/aliasrc
               fi

And that should do it.

However, if you are using a shell other than bash, sh, ksh, or zsh, then the process of loading global settings will be different. In the case of csh and tcsh, you will have to implement the same concept to their global settings file .login, instead of the profile.

WRT, to opening a terminal with CTR+t, check the properties of the call to the terminal in both your desktop menu, and your task bar menu, and make sure they both are being called as a login shell, and not a generic shell.

GL

P.S. if you want to load the profile when you su, you have to call it as such:
" su - " in order to load the global profile.

//edit: added wrt and p.s.

mooreted · 06-15-2004, 09:52 PM

Thanks. I don't know much about scripting and haven't had the time to learn. I think I'll stick with Mandrake. Everything seems to work as I would expect it to for a non-programmer.

Have a good one.

Ted.