Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 22:36, jdow wrote:
> >> Where is it that SuSE sets the single letter l to be equal to ls -l
> >> for bash users?  
> >>
> >> I want to steal that for kbuntu.
> >
> > Make a shell script l in /usr/bin "ls -l $*"
> > It works.
>
> John, if you have to ask go learn your shell commands a little bit
> better. In particular study the alias command. (Of course, you could,
> too, Tage. {^_-}) There are several places within the login sequence
> where the alias command could be installed. I also have aliases for
> ls -A, ls -lA and some others that I use a lot.

Yes, I had to ask, because I've never (knowingly) used alias before.
You will have to forgive me, I've only  been using linux since redhat 5.1.

But since you admit there are several ways to do this, why jump
on someone for asking exactly how suse did it?

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John Andersen