On Thursday 13 May 2004 14:49, Aldous Huxley wrote: > Whenever I create the alias: [alias 'ls=ls --color=auto'] it works just > fine until I log out and then log back in, then, magically, it's not > there. Why doesn't linux save these changes to disk? Try adding the alias command to ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. Or, if you want the changes to be system-wide, edit /etc/profile. David