Ok...maybe I'm being dense - I should have specified - I'm looking to set up aliases in bash. For example, in my tcsh .login file, I have the following: alias lo logout how would I do that in .bash_profile or .bash_login, etc? When I tried, it didn't work. Thanks, Liz On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Clay Fandre wrote: > Liz Burke-Scovill wrote: > > > > I know I'd opt for the alias route - - > > > > speaking of - something I've always wanted to know, but never got the > > nerve to ask...I'm VERY familiar with editing the .login file for use on > > csh, tcsh, etc...but what about bash? bash doesn't seem to operate the > > same way and I'm so used to my customized environmnet in tcsh, it's about > > the ONLY reason I haven't played much with bash. how do you set up alias's > > there? > > > > Thanks, > > Liz > > > > Use the .bash_login (or something) > > >From the bash manpage: > On login (subject to the -noprofile option): > if /etc/profile exists, source it. > > if ~/.bash_profile exists, source it, > else if ~/.bash_login exists, source it, > else if ~/.profile exists, source it. > > On exit: > if ~/.bash_logout exists, source it. > > Non-login interactive shells: > On startup (subject to the -norc and -rcfile options): > if ~/.bashrc exists, source it. > > Non-interactive shells: > On startup: > if the environment variable ENV is non-null, expand > it and source the file it names, as if the command > if [ "$ENV" ]; then . $ENV; fi > had been executed, but do not use PATH to search > for the pathname. When not started in Posix mode, bash > looks for BASH_ENV before ENV. > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Imagination is intelligence having fun... e-mail: kethry at winternet.com URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html