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TTT Part 14 of n – Aliases & Prompts

Filed Under Computers & Tech, System Administration on January 11, 2014 | 1 Comment

This post is part 14 of 39 in the series Taming the Terminal

In the previous instalment we looked at how to make permanent changes to our environment. We made a permanent change to the PATH environment variable to demonstrate how it’s done (by editing ~/.bash_profile on a Mac, or ~/.bashrc on Linux). In this instalment we’ll look at two other kinds of environment changes you may wish to make by editing these files – specifically, aliases, and custom prompts.

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