Re: ll, la and h [closed]

[Constantine <cnst at rbcmail dot ru>]

Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Constantine wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am a FreeBSD user. I always get an error on cygwins' bash shell that
> > there are no such commands as ll, la and h. How can I add aliases to
> > these commands to the standard bash shell under cygwin? I have tried to
> > copy .cshrc and .shrc from FreeBSD ~ to cygwin ~, and restarting the
> > shell, but it does not seem to help, does it?
> >    
>
> If you stick something like
>
>  [elfyn@ellixia libxslt-1.0.27-1]$ cat ~/.rc/aliases
>  # ~/.rc/aliases: Shell Aliases
>  #
>  #   This file contains Bash shell aliases for programs
>  #   and scripts.
>
>  # Directory listings
>  alias ls='/bin/ls --color=tty'
>  alias la='/bin/ls -a --color=tty'
>  alias ll='/bin/ls -l --color=tty'
>  alias lal='/bin/ls -al --color=tty'
>  [...]
>
> this in your `~/.bash_profile' file (or add them globaly in a script in
> `/etc/profile.d') you'll have you ls aliases. I don't know what h is an alias
> for, though. `head' perhaps? Anyhow, that should be enough to get you your
> aliases.
>
> IIRC, your shell (bash) will have to be a login shell for `~/.bash_profile' to
> be sourced.
>
> Elfyn

Thank you very much indeed!
h stands for history. :-)

Cheers,
Constantine.


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