On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 04:01:48AM -0500, Meanie wrote:
> I thought I knew the answer to this one myself... guess I was wrong.
> This is real simple. All I want to do is specify aliases. In
> particular, I want 'ls' to be 'ls --color -a -p -w 80'. I have
> specified this in /etc/skel/.bashrc and rebooted numerable times, only
The /etc/skel directory is used as a "base image" of the files you want
installed when you create new users.
> to find that it didn't work. The line I added is still in .bashrc, but
> evidently is doing absolutely nothing. Being a newbie, it's handy to be
> able to know at a glance what is a directory, what is executable, etc.,
> and for some reason my columns are screwed up when I 'ls', so I ned to
> have that -w 80 in there. Also, when I specify the alias at the command
> line (as I must do every time I boot) it eventually stops working and I
> have to re-alias. I thought maybe I wasn't running bash at startup, so
> I've tried running it from the command line and that didn't work
> either. I didn't specify to run bash -norc anywhere.. could it be doing
> it on its own or something?
Add your aliases to ~/.bashrc then logout and log back in and you'll have
'em!
Good luck!
--
Steve Philp
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