alias

bjlockie · Veteran Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 1186 Location: Canada

I want to add an alias that shows up in my shell when I login and my shell under KDE.
alias ll='ls -l'
Where do I put it?
I've tried ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc

Milez · Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 6:59 pm Post subject:

Put it at the end of /etc/profile. I have the same alias there and it works for all my users. However, there could be some weird issue with kdm (I'm assuming that's what you're using to log in) reading from a different file. Write back if it works.
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bjlockie · Veteran Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 1186 Location: Canada

Putting it in /etc/profile worked, thanks.

Milez · Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 9:49 pm Post subject:

Sure, no problem.
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bjlockie · Veteran Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 1186 Location: Canada

It worked on the latest Gentoo machin I installed but not one I did earlier.
I created a ~/.bashrc and that worked.

# more ~/.bashrc
alias ll='ls -l'

# tail /etc/profile
alias ll='ls -l'

Looks the same to me.
Maybe it works for users but not root.