Hello William,
The most complete answer to your question is to point you to "Take Control of the
Mac Command Line in Terminal" by Joe Kissell, which explains how to create .bashrc
files, what you can specify in that file, how to create aliases, and many more details
for questions that you will probably end up posting one by one. It's available from the
Take Control Books site for $10.00:
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/command-line
Some of the Take Control books are available in the iBooks store, but manu, including this one, are
not. Also, if you buy directly from the Take Control web site you get access to multiple format
versions (in addition to the direct download in PDF) from login on the web site. This includes a
folder of alternate formats (including ePub) from your account (e.g., list of links will be
"Take Control of the Mac Command Line in Terminal", which links to the web page URL with
description given above, then a link to the version number, which links the latest PDF version,
then the "Dowload" link which links a folder with alternate available formats (e.g.,
ePub, mobi, Android format in some cases). Your library comes up when you log into your account,
and you always have access to the latest minor revision versions of each book. These read easily
in Preview, and you can load the ePub version into iBooks. (Unfortunately, you cannot upload ePub
versions of the books directly into iBooks, the way I can if I purchase these same titles from
oreilly.com, and access my account's purchased ebook links from the login page).
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Feb 07, 2011, at 01:37 PM, William Windels <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello all, I have a question about the terminal:
In the classic linux distributions that run with bash, there is a .bashrc-file
where you can add aliases.
A alias gives the possibility to make a short string=command for a long
instruction.
a example can be:
alias commandtest='this are all the commands that are executed when commandtest
is typed'
I would like to make aliases in terminal for some commands but I can't find the
.bashrc-file.
Can someone give me some hints how this works on a mac?
Thanx for your help!
best regards,
William
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