On Mon, Apr 21, 2014, at 04:11 AM, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Nex6|Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kinda new to OpenBSD, (have a couple of 5.4 installs in VMs); whats the > > standard for alias's? i added it to the .profile but some googling seems to > > indicate that that wont work. that you have to export, and do an .kshrc > > file? so whats the "standard?" > > As Eric noted, reading the ksh(1) manpage is a start. > > My rule of thumb is that shell settings fall into two groups: > * those that are inherited or only need to be done once per session: > environment variables, umask, stty settings > * those that need to be done by each shell process: shell functions, > aliases, unexported variables, bind changes > > The former go in your .profile. The latter go in a file of your > choice which you point the ENV variable at, which you export in your > .profile. So: > > .profile: > umask 002 > export ENV=~/.kshrc > export PAGER=less > export HOSTNAME=$(hostname) > stty -ixon -ixoff ixany status ^T > > > .kshrc: > l() { ls -la "$@"; } > PS1=": ${HOSTNAME%%.*}; " > > and so on. > > Philip Guenther >
An example like this is fantastic. It would be nice if an example like this were in the ksh man page. My knowledge of submitting diffs is minimal, sorry.
