Storing Shell Scripts for System-Wide Access
After you execute the command myenv
, you should be able to use ldir
from the command line to get a list of files under the current directory and ll
to get a list of files with attributes displayed. However, the best way to use the new commands in myenv
is to put them into your shell’s login or profile file. For Ubuntu, and nearly all Linux users, the default shell is bash
, so you can make these commands available for everyone on your system by putting them in the /etc/bashrc
file. System-wide aliases for tcsh
are contained in files with the extension .csh
under the /etc/profile.d
directory. The pdksh
shell can use these command aliases, as well.
Note
To use a shell other than bash
after logging in, ...
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