On 09/22/2010 10:09 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > For example, 'alias' is a tremendously useful command, letting you setup > a personal shortcut for all kinds of things, like building Scribus -- I > use it to run cmake to direct a version to its own directory.
Yes! My distro insists on aliasing ls to the color form. I dislike it, partially because there's no place that tells me just what the various colors mean. I used to have to chase through script after script to find out just where to change it, only to have it changed back when I upgraded to the next distro version. Then it hit me, and I added this to the bottom of ~/.bashrc: alias ls=ls because that overrides anything done earlier in a way that's not going to be munched by an upgrade in a rather elegant way.
