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From: rbr@bonnie.ATT.COM (4197,ATTT)
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Subject: Re: ksh - how do you keep aliases permanent?
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Date: 11 Mar 91 13:56:01 GMT
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In article <544@genco.bungi.com> rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) writes:
>When defining aliases, is there a way to keep them permanent as they are defined
>rather than inserting them directly into .profile?  If I have to, I'll write
>something that makes aliases and stores them in a file that is launched by
>.profile at login but would like to know if it can be done before spending 
>time on that routine.

Store them in a file named ".kshrc" which will be read by ksh at login. At
least this is true "ksh" on AT&T UNIX V.  Other implementations may use a
different name for the file. Check your Ksh manual or talk to your system
administrator.

The following is an example showing a few lines from my ".kshrc".  You can
put them in one per line "alias <name> = 'command line' or bunch them as
I have.

alias   \
        lf='ls -CF'                \
        ll='ls -l'                 

Bob Rager