I am humbled by my public display of newbieness. I just reinstalled the man
package and I feel like I've found the keys to the kingdom. I'm making a
.bashrc, .bash_profile, .inputrc etc. Aliases are forever now, so many
keystrokes saved.........................
Richard, Ray, and Raider are on my Christmas list.
Thanks,
DAve.
>According to Dave G: While burning my CPU.
>>
>> >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?
>
>It comes from "bash" 'man bash' will explain, if i were to say, gottya,
>because i said put an "alias" in your ".bash_profile" would you forgive me
>for saying, you should have seen thro' that one, "bash_profile"?????
>
>
>> 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?
>
>I can assure you after reading 'man bash' you will see that you can do
>"amasing things" in bash, BTW: bash is not the only shell, its just one
>which i seem to have read the most about. Ray, i should have read MORE about
>"perl", (i say that with a red face)... But thanks for the corrections in
>your mail.
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>Huuh!! as a matter of fact, most the the commands you quote are origanaly
>*NIX commands.
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>Ah!, try writing man pages, thats give you a weekend headache..
>
>>
>> DAve.
>Regards Richard.
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