if you put "alias w="cat /proc/net/dev; vmstat; w" in /etc/bashrc
then every user gets that alias. put in in ~/.bashrc and the
respective user gets the alias.

At 09:31 AM 11/22/00 -0600, you 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.
>
>Thanks,
>Liz
>
>On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Clay Fandre wrote:
>
>> Liz Burke-Scovill wrote:
>> > 
>> > 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
>> > 
>> 
>> Use the .bash_login (or something)
>> 
>> >From the bash manpage:
>>  On login (subject to the -noprofile option):
>>                if /etc/profile exists, source it.
>> 
>>                if ~/.bash_profile exists, source it,
>>                  else if ~/.bash_login exists, source it,
>>                    else if ~/.profile exists, source it.
>> 
>>          On exit:
>>                if ~/.bash_logout exists, source it.
>> 
>>        Non-login interactive shells:
>>          On startup (subject to the -norc and -rcfile options):
>>                if ~/.bashrc exists, source it.
>> 
>>        Non-interactive shells:
>>          On startup:
>>                if the environment variable ENV is non-null, expand
>>                it and source the file it names, as if the command
>>                        if [ "$ENV" ]; then . $ENV; fi
>>                had been executed, but do not use PATH to search
>>                for the pathname.  When not started in Posix mode, bash
>>                looks for BASH_ENV before ENV.
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