Hi,
I would like to add my aliases to my local profile only(~/bashrc). The one
I want is l='ls -l', but it seems this one has already been defined and I
can't overload it. Unalias has no permanent effect, I find. What to do?
--
Jesper Nyholm Jensen
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote:
>>>On Wednesday 03 April 2002 10:26 am, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> How do I create aliases in the bash shell?
>>>
>>> First type 'alias' in a terminal to see what you've already got.
>>>Then, I make the aliases I want to add in /etc/bashrc to make them
>>>global to all users (me ;) As root just use a text editor to add 'em
>>>to the end of bashrc For example, putting in this line
>>> alias loci="locate -i"
>>>will enable 'loci' to do a case insensitive search for whatever you
>>>type after 'loci', eg 'loci mandrake' will find all instances of
>>>either Mandrake or mandrake.
>>>
>>> With all aliases, they won't take effect till you start a new
>>>terminal. With my example, you're slocate DB will need to be
>>>current. To update it, type 'updatedb'. I use this alias to do a
>>>bunch of updating all at once
>>> alias updall='rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && ldconfig -v'
>>>
>>> There's other ways to add aliases, but I find making them global
>>>in bashrc is easiest, since I only need to save /etc/bashrc to
>>>instantly make them available to a fresh install by just coping in my
>>>bakup bashrc to /etc. Basically, anything you can do on the command
>>>line, can be shortened to a few characters, by just adding
>>> alias <some charaters>="the command you want" to etc/bashrc to
>>>save typing, and you only have to get it right once ;) Just remember
>>>to surround the "the command you want" with either double (") or
>>>single (') quote marks when you add it to bashrc.
>>>--
>>> Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
>>>
>>>
>>>
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