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I found out about alias by looking at ~/.bash_profile... Then I played
with it and figured that much out.
I love to tinker with files that I don't know about, so my KB is growing
daily. =)
- Mike
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On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Dave G wrote:
> >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"
>
>
>
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