I know I'd opt for the alias route - - speaking of - something I've always wanted to know, but never got the nerve to ask...I'm VERY familiar with editing the .login file for use on csh, tcsh, etc...but what about bash? bash doesn't seem to operate the same way and I'm so used to my customized environmnet in tcsh, it's about the ONLY reason I haven't played much with bash. how do you set up alias's there? Thanks, Liz On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 andy at theasis.com wrote: > > of course everyone is going to say uptime, but real geeks cat /proc/uptime > > ;) > > No, I think the *real* geek would think of that, but opt for the solution > with fewer keystrokes. Geek would instead go for the letter "w". But > perhaps the excessive output would be deemed undesirable, and so the > ultimate result would be along the lines of creating "alias u = 'uptime'". > This has the added advantage of customizing one's personal environment so > that it's more obscure to the layman. > > Andy > > > Thank You, > > Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Imagination is intelligence having fun... e-mail: kethry at winternet.com URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html