set user aliases?

Hi All,

Sorry for bombarding you folks with so many questions yesterday and today.

I do a lot of work from the command line and usually create a bunch of aliases to make my life easier. I also usually have a couple of different login names for doing different tasks, and the aliases for different user names are not always the same. I know that this may sound stupid, but once you're used to it, it can really be efficient. I oculd always write some simple scripts, store them in my ~/bin directories and run them whenever I log in as a different user, but that is a bit of a pain.

In RH/FC, there was always a ~.bashrc which could be used to quickly set aliases and also a ~.bash_profile which made setting different users' paths a piece of cake. How is this done in SUSE?

I ran an "apropos alias" and got no feedback on setting individual user aliases, but nothing worthwhile came up. I did find an /etc/aliases.d directory, but there is no man page for its usage.

I know there has to be a simple solution and you folks probably do this all the time, but I ofuld nothing in Google or in searching this forum either.

TIA,

Jim

Have you tried simply creating a ~.bashrc file?

Doh!

I guess that was just too easy. Done and working. I guess I thought that since it wasn't there, it wouldn't be automatically read and parsed.

Sorry for the stupid question.

Jim

No question is too simple. I'm glad it works for you. If it makes you feel any better I asked the exact same question on another forum a couple of years ago.