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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ksh - how do you keep aliases permanent?
Summary: Save 'em and re-alias next time.
Message-ID: <668886493.6428@mindcraft.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 17:48:13 GMT
References: <57993@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> <7365@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <544@genco.bungi.com> <1991Mar11.041751.18032@cbnews.att.com> <557@genco.bungi.com>
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In article <557@genco.bungi.com> rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) writes:
>Whenever setting up aliases, they are gone when I log out.  I want to keep
>aliases permanent for the next time I login.  

In your .kshrc, set an exit trap to run the 'alias' builtin
and save the results in a file.  Have .kshrc use what's saved
in the file to set new aliases the next time you log in.

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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