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Re: Alias problem



On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 06:49:16AM -0700, 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?

Because it doesn't work that way (I often define aliases for single
sessions, for example). Put those changes in your shell startup scripts;
that's what they're there for.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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