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- From: jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us (John D. Boggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: getting an ls alias to work in super-user shells?
- References: <1993Jan10.000132.13035@netcom.com>
- Message-ID: <93011020024@erato.iowa-city.ia.us>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 16:43:22 +0100
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- From article <1993Jan10.000132.13035@netcom.com>, by messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk):
- > Just to be on the safe side, I would recommend that you change your
- > alias to ls='/bin/ls -C'. It's a good practice not to risk looping
- > your alias.
-
- Done. Thanks for the warning.
-
- >>Can I do anything to make "ls" *always* be "ls -C"?
-
- > You may change your root shell to ksh and use global alias file for all
- > users on the system.
-
- Hmm, I can't seem to figure out how to set up a "global alias file." How
- does one do this?
-
- -John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
-