Quoting Glynn S. Condez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > do the command "alias" to see the systemwide aliases.
Well, that's aliases valid in the current shell, anyway. (alias and unalias are shell built-in commands.) > as what Rick says, you can disable systemwide alias for cp by issuing > unalias cp, you could enable cp alias by alias cp='cp -i'. The closest thing to "systemwide" would be something in /etc/skel/.bashrc , but individual users could of course override that with their own ~/.bashrc files. In any event, I'm pretty sure that setting "alias anything=anything_else" at the command line affects only that shell (and any subshells). But I thought it would be relevant to say why such aliases for cp, mv, and rm might be considered a very bad idea: You come to rely upon their being present, and then may be very unpleasantly surprised in some situation where they aren't there. A lot of people seem to think "My distribution defaulted to this setup; therefore, it must be a good idea." I'd suggest that that's a mistake. -- Cheers, "My file system's got no nodes!" Rick Moen "How does it shell?" [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
