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. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >