How do I run a shell?

[Bry Melvin]

> From: Marius Bock <marius.lists at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: How do I run a shell?
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> Or just create a dir alias for ls ... and then you
> do not have to worry
> about anything else.
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> Marius
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> > I create a folder bin under my home directory.
> >
> > I create a file called dir in bin. The contents of
> the file is simply one
> > line "ls".
> >
> > I add execute to the file properties.
> >
> > I type dir in the terminal window.
> >
> > In SuSe I get the listing from the ls.
> >
> > In Ubuntu I get "command not found".
> >
> > In Ubuntu, if I type ". dir", it works.
> >
> > Help!
> >
either an alias OR editing the path will work.

FWIW if you are going to add scripts for much or use
wine ~/bin in the path are necessary.

SuSE May not even have been using your /home/bin

Depending on the suse distro it HAS some built in
alias' On my Suse machine (and this has been Suse
since 7.3 with updates so I don't know which disto did
it) "dir" gives me an "ls -l" without me ever having
added any script...there's a distro included alias.


Bryann