Re: i

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Herbert Xu wrote:
> luther@skyinet.net wrote:
> > 
> > ( about each user having to make his own alias )
> > 
> > i thought you can use /etc/profile or something like that to make system wide aliases ?
> 
> No because aliases are not exported.  They have to reside in .bashrc.

No, /etc/profile is read just like .bashrc. You can have aliasses
in /etc/profile (I do, and they are active in my shells).

-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org

The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different 
than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so.


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