aliases for use in ubuntu

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, alex wrote:

Hello Alex,

> (all aliases are  in /root/.bashrc in each Linux)
> alias ubu-='cd; umount -l /mnt/da10'

There are two things:

  (1) put the aliases in your *own* '/home/alex/.bashrc'.
  (2) move the 'sudo' into the alias

so for example:

  $ alias foo='sudo echo hello world'
  $ foo
  hello world
  $ sudo tail -1 /var/log/auth.log
  localhost sudo: [...] COMMAND=/bin/echo bar

or using your two original examples:

  $ alias ubu+='sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda10 /mnt/da10; cd /mnt/da10; ls -aF --color=auto'
  $ alias ubu-='cd; sudo umount -l /mnt/da10'

and to execute them:

  $ ubu+
  $ ubu-

Note that only put need to put 'sudo' in front of the bits requiring the
privileges.

Hope that helps!

	-Paul
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