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Setting up aliases on Linux systems can save you a lot of time and trouble on the command line. This post shows how to set up and manage aliases and provides a number of examples on how and why to use ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

I just followed those instructions but switched my shell to bash instead of tcsh. But now bash doesn't seem to read my .bashrc file. It worked before, when I was getting to bash from tcsh. What ...