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Re: Aliasing (was Re: tmpwatch problem)
by David Guntner-3
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Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 18 June 2009 22:35:37 Dick Gevers wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:28:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote about Aliasing (was
>> Re: [Expert] tmpwatch problem):
>>>> For example:
>>>>
>>>> alias broom='/usr/sbin/tmpwatch --mtime --verbose 168 /home/anne/.tmp'
>>>
>>> Can that be done to add parameters? I mean, for instance, on the F10
>>> netbook, I would like to alias 'yum update' to 'yum update --skip-broken'.
>>
>> Sure: e.g. alias yus='yum update --skip-broken'.
>>
>> Obviously, if you run it with sudo you'd have to include 'sudo' in front,
>> and if run as root, you could either put your alias as before in ~/.bashrc
>> (which is then same as /root/.bashrc), or in any file in /etc/profile.d .
>> My root aliases are in /etc/profile.d/z_<boxname>.sh
>
> Thanks. I'm trying this - putting it in ~/.bashrc. Don't know whether it
> needs it, but I ran newaliases anyway. Then I tried 'yus' but got 'command
> not found'. What have I missed?The newaliases command builds the aliases db hash table for
sendmail/postfix. :-)
Your .bashrc file is only executed when a new shell is opened. Close
the shell you're in after having put the alias command into it and open
a new shell window. Or you can just type ". ~/.bashrc" to run it from
within the shell window in question (without the quotes, of course) so
you don't have to bring up a new shell. Either way, your alias should
then be active.
--Dave
> On Thursday 18 June 2009 22:35:37 Dick Gevers wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:28:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote about Aliasing (was
>> Re: [Expert] tmpwatch problem):
>>>> For example:
>>>>
>>>> alias broom='/usr/sbin/tmpwatch --mtime --verbose 168 /home/anne/.tmp'
>>>
>>> Can that be done to add parameters? I mean, for instance, on the F10
>>> netbook, I would like to alias 'yum update' to 'yum update --skip-broken'.
>>
>> Sure: e.g. alias yus='yum update --skip-broken'.
>>
>> Obviously, if you run it with sudo you'd have to include 'sudo' in front,
>> and if run as root, you could either put your alias as before in ~/.bashrc
>> (which is then same as /root/.bashrc), or in any file in /etc/profile.d .
>> My root aliases are in /etc/profile.d/z_<boxname>.sh
>
> Thanks. I'm trying this - putting it in ~/.bashrc. Don't know whether it
> needs it, but I ran newaliases anyway. Then I tried 'yus' but got 'command
> not found'. What have I missed?
sendmail/postfix. :-)
Your .bashrc file is only executed when a new shell is opened. Close
the shell you're in after having put the alias command into it and open
a new shell window. Or you can just type ". ~/.bashrc" to run it from
within the shell window in question (without the quotes, of course) so
you don't have to bring up a new shell. Either way, your alias should
then be active.
--Dave
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