[scribus] LEARNING TO USE BASH

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Wed Sep 22 19:18:20 CEST 2010


On 09/22/2010 10:09 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> For example, 'alias' is a tremendously useful command, letting you setup
> a personal shortcut for all kinds of things, like building Scribus -- I
> use it to run cmake to direct a version to its own directory.

Yes!  My distro insists on aliasing ls to the color form.  I dislike it, 
partially because there's no place that tells me just what the various 
colors mean.  I used to have to chase through script after script to 
find out just where to change it, only to have it changed back when I 
upgraded to the next distro version.  Then it hit me, and I added this 
to the bottom of ~/.bashrc:

alias ls=ls

because that overrides anything done earlier in a way that's not going 
to be munched by an upgrade in a rather elegant way.



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