On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Nex6|Bill <n6gh...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kinda new to OpenBSD, (have a couple of 5.4 installs in VMs); whats the
> standard for alias's? i added it to the .profile but some googling seems to
> indicate that that wont work. that you have to export, and do an .kshrc file?
> so whats the "standard?"
As Eric noted, reading the ksh(1) manpage is a start.
My rule of thumb is that shell settings fall into two groups:
* those that are inherited or only need to be done once per session:
environment variables, umask, stty settings
* those that need to be done by each shell process: shell functions,
aliases, unexported variables, bind changes
The former go in your .profile. The latter go in a file of your
choice which you point the ENV variable at, which you export in your
.profile. So:
.profile:
umask 002
export ENV=~/.kshrc
export PAGER=less
export HOSTNAME=$(hostname)
stty -ixon -ixoff ixany status ^T
.kshrc:
l() { ls -la "$@"; }
PS1=": ${HOSTNAME%%.*}; "
and so on.
Philip Guenther
