On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 05:55, John Hodges wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Craig wrote: > > > Please look closely at the /etc/bashrc file, you will notice that the file > > starts as follows: > > > > # /etc/bashrc > > > > # System wide functions and aliases > > > > Trust me when I say that this IS where you put global aliases. It works for me > > and all my friends who use both fedora/red hat and suse, no exceptions. Red > > Hat may march to their own drum (which is absolute open source along with > > their perception of how things should be) but they are still LSB compliant. > > > > Craig > > Perhaps I didn't word my initial post properly. There is a file somewhere > containing aliases with regards to various ls commands, and vi=vim. This > latter especially I want to change. I had initially thought that aliases > in ~/.bashrc would overwrite system-wide aliases of the same name, but > that does not appear to be the case. Ditto for /etc/bashrc. Last night I > tried 'grep -r ^alias /etc/.* >> somefile' It was still running when I > woke up. > > At any rate, I don't want anyone to break their heads over something so > trivial. I'll just alias edit='\vi' or some such. I was just curious if > anyone knew off the top of their head. The alias of vi=vim for bash is set up in /etc/profile.d/vim.sh; as I mentioned yesterday, the aliases for /bin/sh are used by bash. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
