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. -- J
