Basic bash help

[d.lapointe at comcast.net (David Lapointe)]

I have an aliases.sh in /etc/profile.d for global aliases and a  ~/.alias for 
local alias definitions. That seems like a natural place to define them in 
any shell.  Both Mandrake and Suse do this, at least on the machines I use.

David

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 10:41 am, miah wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:46:49AM -0400, trlists at clayst.com wrote:
> >      alias cp='cp -i'
>
>        ~/.bashrc
>
> >      alias mv='mv -i'
>
>        ~/.bashrc
>
> >      alias rm='rm -i'
>
>        ~/.bashrc
>
> >      alias vi='vim'
>
>        /etc/profile.d/vim.sh
>
> >      alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-
> > dot --show-tilde'
>
>        /etc/profile.d/which-2.sh
>
> I checked on Fedora Core 1, and Redhat 7.1, and thats how they were on
> both systems.  If you don't have those aliases in those files, then
> they're set somewhere else, by something thats non-default.
>
> Just to be extremely clear, I actually looked at the redhat srpm, and
> they're not working any magic to 'build in' those aliases, so they're
> definitely being set by a script, or a login profile.
>
> > The aliases for vi and which are findable in the files in profile.d,
> > however those for cp, mv, and rm are not there nor in ~/.bashrc, nor in
> > /etc/bashrc.  Where might they be?
> >
> > Also, for my own aliases, where is the usual place to set them if I
> > want them global?  Specific to a particular user?  Do I create my own
> > script in profile.d for my own aliases, or modify an existing script?
> > For local ones do I use ~/.bashrc, or make it call a separate script?
> > I know all of these approaches will work, I'm wondering if there is a
> > common practice for defining aliases.
>
> global would be /etc/bashrc specific to a user ~/.bashrc, don't forget
> to update /etc/skel/.bashrc if you start adding more aliases you
> allways want set.
>
> -miah
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