Re: Default Flags for system commands

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (cfajohnson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/27/05 

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:01:16 -0400

On 2005-07-27, Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:20:16 -0700, bmearns wrote:
>
>> What I'm aiming for is to be able to set it up so that executing
>> $ ls
>>
>> by default runs
>> $ ls --color -F
>
> Add the following line to your /home/bmearns/.bash_profile file:
>
> alias ls=ls --color -F

bash: alias: --color: not found
bash: alias: -F: not found

    I think you mean:

alias ls='ls --color -F'

    But, to quote the bash man page, "For almost every purpose,
    aliases are superseded by shell functions." 

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