UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

1. Please do not haste. That is not the great way of Unix.
2. Did you check the contents of /etc/bashrc ? What does it say? Is it invoking any of the .sh files from /etc/profile.d/ ?
3. Going by your previous posts in this thread I'm assuming there's no .bashrc file in your home dir. We've to go through all this trouble because it's not there. Please check again if there's a .bashrc file in your home dir. ls -l $HOME/.bashrc
4. Please read all the points and answer/comment accordingly.

yes my etc folder contains bashrc which contains the same code which u have mentioned earlier i.e

Code:

    for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
        if [ -r "$i" ]; then
            . $i
        fi
    done

also tried below code

Code:

[user01@vm02 ~]$ $HOME/.bashrc
-bash: /home/user01/.bashrc: Permission denied

Ok then add alias hr='cd /home/hmi/bin/Log' in any of the .sh files. Search in the .sh files if there are other aliases defined. If so, append this to that list. This is just for brevity, so that you can have a collated list of aliases in one single file.

Restart your system and check if it has taken effect.

hi there,

i'm trying to create an alias in .bashrc so when i type hi it would how are you...

i'm exploring the combination of alias and echo command...

Code:

alias hi=' echo "\"alias hi\" how are you."'  <--- doesn't take...

preciate the help.

Code:

$ alias hi="echo \"how are you\""
$ hi
how are you
$

$ hi
-bash: hi: command not found <---- still not displaying...

any clue why? i type you code exactly.

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balajesuri, thank you very much, works great... i need to remember that linux is case sensitive... thanks for the tutorial