On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:59:39 -0600 Charles Howse <chowse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Actually, the shell was one the main reasons for me to switch to Linux. > In what file are the default aliases kept? depends on what shell you're using. i'll take a flyer and guess that it's bash (the most likely shell for the modern linux user). for bash, system wide aliases are generally in /etc/bashrc and per-user aliases are in ~/.bashrc richard -- Richard Welty rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security