Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Hans du Plooy <hansdp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 27 August 2004 18:04, Danny Sauer wrote:
> If you're running bash, you can alias a command to itself.  For example, I
> like for ls to print color output all the time, even though my terminal
> string is incorrect as far as it knows.  So, for logins on this terminal, I
> do alias ls='ls --color'

Thanks Danny, I made a /etc/bash.bashrc.local as described at the end of 
bash.bashrc and put a alias for each in there.  Works like a charm!

Every day I learn something new...

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Hans du Plooy
Newington Consulting Services
hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za