I'm fairly new to RHEL and Ubuntu 9.10 and need to know how to do a lot of bash operations. I'm fairly up to speed but I want to create aliases and change the bash prompt, etc. and have that affected for each bash session (i.e. permanent).

So which files do I need to create/modify in RHEL? Is there a separate file for aliases in RHEL? This was fairly straight-forward in Ubuntu.

There is a /etc/bashrc script. Is this one global? I just want to write one or mod one for me (current user, not root or all users).

So I wrote a .bashrc in my home directory and did a 'chmod u+x .bashrc'. When I opened a new bash terminal, my new alias 'l' command is not recognized.

Here is the script:

#!/bin/bash

alias l='ls -la'

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

Have a look at ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_{profile,login}

Things in ~/.bashrc should usually just "take", and aliases
are commonly in that file, too.

And bashrc doesn't need the shebang line - it's being sourced.

Cheers,
Tink

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You don't need to make it executable and you have to log out and back in again for bashrc to start working.

you can also type
This will load your new .bashrc file. Type in alias to verify your new alias commands are listed

Here's some good bash tutorials
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz - Linux at the cmd line
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

thanks much for the replies. I got kicked off the Ubuntu/Win7 box and now using WinXP (blame the wife) but I'll give it a try soon.

btw, I'm a Java developer and noticed that Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) runs much faster on Ubuntu (it's a 2007 Dell with AMD X2 proc, nothing fancy) than on Win boxes.

I think you'll find a lot of things will run a little faster on Linux

And way faster if they're not implemented in java ;-)

Evo2.