On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Todd Maurice wrote:
1.
I would like to set d-i preseed/late_command in such way that a line
containing alias instructions would get added to ~/.bashrc. That way alias
would be active when I first login after the installation (typing 'myalias'
would start script1).
I tried
d-i preseed/late_command string in-target echo "alias myalias='sh
./script1'" >> /home/user/.bashrc
but it failed with "Exit code 1"
I tried
d-i preseed/late_command string in-target sed -i '1i alias myalias='sh
./script1'' /home/user/.bashrc
but it failed with "Exit code 2"
I suspect that one of the attempts failed due some sort of syntax error.
Unless your username is "user", it looks like you're going to have a
problem writing to a file in a non-existent directory. On the whole I
think you'd be better off hand-editing $HOME/.bashrc in your favorite text
editor. It's only one line of code and you get to verify that it was
entered correctly.
I'm not a bash user (ksh has long been my usual shell), but the line will
look something like:
alias myalias="sh ./script1"
2.
Is there a way to make that alias run automatically when the user logs in?
With "run automatically" I mean that alias would execute script1 as soon as
the user logs on without requiring the user to type 'myalias'.
You simply invoke the script in your $HOME/.profile, like so:
#We can't assume the script is in the current directory
#The source command executes the commands contained in the script without
#spawning a new process
source $HOME/script1
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