And the syntax is

         alias ls='ls -al'

The single quotes are needed if the alias included an embedded space

Dave

At 09:44 AM 11/22/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Liz Burke-Scovill wrote:
>
> >
> > Ok...maybe I'm being dense - I should have specified - I'm looking to set
> > up aliases in bash. For example, in my tcsh .login file, I have the
> > following:
> >
> > alias lo      logout
> >
> > how would I do that in .bash_profile or .bash_login, etc? When I tried, it
> > didn't work.
>
>Try putting your aliases in the .bashrc file...
>
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