On Saturday 13 March 2004 03:44 pm, Troy T. Hall wrote:
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 March 2004 08:55 am, et wrote:
> >>hey Tom, can you repost your "update_all" alias too?, I bet
> >>some folks (me) could use that too...
> >>Thanks
> >>Ed
> >
> > alias upall='rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && update-menus -n
> > && ldconfig'
> >
> > .... also, after large updates, specially for KDE, Gnome,
> > libs, etc. It's helpful, often mandatory to log out of your
> > desktop, might as well also re-start X (Ctrl+Alt+BkSp), and
> > log back in.
> where does this go?
At the end of a bashrc file. It then becomes a system command.
~/.bashrc for an individual user, /etc/bashrc to make the command
global. I'd suggest global for a one user desktop, so that the
command is available to both user and root. Of course some
commands like 'upall' require root privledge, and if run as user
will just return "Permission denied" or "Command not found". Be
extra careful with 'root' privledged commands.
Google 'bash aliases' for the whole story.
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