>According to Raider: While burning my CPU.
<SNIP>
>
>edit your profie, normaly called .bash_profile or .profile and enter;
>
>alias dir='ls -al'
>
>and make the system reread the file with '. .bash_profile' or its equilant
>(system dependant.)
>Now 'dir' works in linux, of course a newbie would not know that, but with
>a little thought and help from this mailing group a lot can be achived.
</SNIP>
What was that! I found no man page for alias, where did that come from?
Any idea how much easier the CL would be with that knowledge? 8^o) I've
got several online books for Linux and I've never seen that. Someone else
posted an example for 'info' this morning also, info?
Noe, just how many of these little CL jewels are you gurus keeping under
your hats? 'man, |, cat, >, info, alias, grep, find, head, tail.........
the list gets bigger.
I'm no famous author by any stretch but I've written some read me's and
small tutorials for other software. If I could round up some real world
examples of these *highly* useful gems I could be coaxed into assembling
them into something useable to newcomers. Not just another webpage but
maybe a "Lynx" readable plaintext page this list could point to for
examples.
DAve.
"On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at
the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting -- died"
