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[cjgau]

Hi,

Hope this is the place for a newbie's question.

I like to use the aliases ll and la in the .profile, but didn't know how to enable it.

TIA, TC is a clean and wonderful distro!

[^thehatsrule^]

You can set the ENV variable.  For more info, see http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=196.0

Currently, aliases in .profile will be available only on a VT console.

[cjgau]

Thank you, hats.

For now I just use your code "aterm -e sh --login" saved in Home directory, and double clicks from emelfn2.

Thanks again for your prompt response.

[florian]

Robert and Team, I would suggest that by default TC would move its alias definition to a ~/.ashrc file and include this also from ~/.profile. This would allow to have same aliases in both the initial login shell and the non-login shells.

Here's an extract of my  ~/.profile:

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if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
        . "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
else
    export ENV="$HOME/.ashrc"   
    if [ -f "$HOME/.ashrc" ]; then
        . "$HOME/.ashrc"
    fi
fi


[roberts]

Good suggestion florian, will implement.

[^thehatsrule^]

Is checking for those bash specifics needed?  Usually the regular user profile in .bash_profile for bash is used anyways.  (perhaps the bash extension should include one if it doesn't)

Also, just to change a bit, having setting ENV inside the if statement might be better:

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if [ -f "$HOME/.ashrc" ]; then
  export ENV="$HOME/.ashrc"
  . "$HOME/.ashrc"
fi

[florian]

yes ^thehatsrule^, it's better how you wrote it for TC. My own .profile has bash stuff because I usually I keep only one home directory for several distros.

One more detail: i see there are by default in TC some alias for mv (to mv -i) and rm (to rm -i). For similar safety reason, I would suggest to also alias cp to cp -i.

[tobiaus]

One more detail: i see there are by default in TC some alias for mv (to mv -i) and rm (to rm -i). For similar safety reason, I would suggest to also alias cp to cp -i.

before you do that, i'd make the existing aliases (aliasi?) do what they're intended to:

echo "" > tmpy
echo "" > tmpz
mv tmpy tmpz

does not show any presence of -i that i know of.

[^thehatsrule^]

One more detail: i see there are by default in TC some alias for mv (to mv -i) and rm (to rm -i). For similar safety reason, I would suggest to also alias cp to cp -i.

before you do that, i'd make the existing aliases (aliasi?) do what they're intended to:

echo "" > tmpy
echo "" > tmpz
mv tmpy tmpz

does not show any presence of -i that i know of.

See the 2nd post in this thread.

[tobiaus]

See the 2nd post in this thread.

oic... well spotted. yes in the vt, they appear to be there. since i use the vt sometimes, i'll know i have the option for safer commands without issuing -i to them, thanks.

[roberts]

Thanks guys. Implemented .ashrc in TC 1.1 Alias definitions now work as expected. No more need to modify .jwmrc aterm shell calls. I agree with hats, the bash part should be implemented in the bash extension.

[Jason W]

I will look into what needs to be done for the bash extension as for as .bash_profile is concerned and add it.