Comments on: Command Line Basics: Create Custom Commands with Alias http://tuxtweaks.com/2009/05/command-line-basics-create-custom-commands-with-alias/ Linux Tweaks, HowTo's and Reviews Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sadanand Hegdehttp://tuxtweaks.com/2009/05/command-line-basics-create-custom-commands-with-alias/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Sadanand Hegde Sun, 31 May 2009 18:03:21 +0000 http://tuxtweaks.com/?p=505#comment-130 I like to keep the .bash_aliases (and one each for .bash_functions, etc..) as a separate file and then add ". .bash_aliases" to the .bashrc file (In fact, there is usually a if ... fi in all the distro's .bashrc)Also instead of doing "source .bashrc" you could also do ". .bashrc"check out my blog on the same topic!http://srhegde.blogspot.com/2009/05/bash-aliases.html I like to keep the .bash_aliases (and one each for .bash_functions, etc..) as a separate file and then add ". .bash_aliases"
to the .bashrc file (In fact, there is usually a if ... fi in all the distro's .bashrc)

Also instead of doing "source .bashrc" you could also do ". .bashrc"

check out my blog on the same topic!

http://srhegde.blogspot.com/2009/05/bash-aliases.html

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