On February 13, 2004 10:36 am, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> I did some Googling to no avail. My root account had no .bashrc so I
> tried adding one with an alias vi="vim" command but it doesn't seem to
> work.
>
> What's the best way to do an alias in the root account?
you can put your aliases in .bashrc, but you have to make sure that bash
sources that file upon login. normally, i have .bash_profile in /root/ with
the following contents:
#This file is sourced by bash when you log in interactively.
[ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc
then .bashrc can have your aliases, /or/ if you've got a lot of aliases, you
can put this line in .bashrc:
source ~/.aliases
and then put all of your aliases in there. have fun ;-)
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