>> (1) Can someone give me the proper syntax for making a symolic link >> for a command with options: specifically, i need to link the >> expression vdir to 'ls -li' because the color-ls patch consolidates >> dir, vdir, and ls into one binary. I tried ln -s 'ls -li' vdir, >> but did not get the desired effect. > >I believe that color ls comes with a program called dircolors or something >like that. Then you typically run eval `dircolors` in your .profile and >vdir gets aliased to ls -li.
Can this be made to work for all possible shells? What if you run one of these programs from a cron job or in a shell script and .profile hasn't been run? >The only way is to make the executable perform differently based on >the way it is called, like the way sz sb and sx are all hardlinks to >the same executable, or to make vdir a shell script. I prefer the way >it's currently handled with the aliases. I'm generally against putting anything extra in profiles as mine takes too long to run already l-) -- Richard Kettlewell http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eat a live toad before breakfast and nothing worse will happen to you all day.
