ksh - how do you keep aliases permanent?
Bob Daniel
rad at genco.bungi.com
Wed Mar 13 01:30:14 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar11.041751.18032 at cbnews.att.com> lvc at cbnews.att.com (lawrence.v.cipriani) writes:
>In article <544 at genco.bungi.com> rad at 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
>I guess I'm not entirely certain what you mean by "keep them permanent."
>If you want those aliases and functions accessible to sub-shells try this:
>export and define a variable called ENV in .profile; $ENV is the name of
>an environment file ksh will automatically "dot" after .profile when you
>login. You do not have to say . $ENV in your .profile, it is redundant
>[at login].
Whenever setting up aliases, they are gone when I log out. I want to keep
aliases permanent for the next time I login.
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