On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 07:51, gabriel wrote: > 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 ;-)
thanks. That worked nicely. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
