Bash Confusion

[Snuffy115]

I'm running a debian 3.0 system. According to documentation I've read, If I put alias's in the /etc/bash.bashrc file those alias's should be available to all users on the system.

I've put the following alias's in the /etc/bash.bashrc file

export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'
alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -l'
alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lA'


For som reason theese are only applied to root. They have no affect on normal users. Can anybody offer any suggestions why this is and how I would be able to set up system wide alias's that work for all users?

[Sepero]

Originally posted by Snuffy115
For som reason theese are only applied to root.Are you sure that root didn't show colors before you changed(added?) this file?

[Snuffy115]

Yes I'm sure. Changing that file is what made the colors and the alias's work but only for root, not for normal users.

That's what has me a little perplexed

[Radar]

I think you have to source the /etc/bashrc in ~/.bashrc

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi

[Snuffy115]

Now I'm really confused.

I went to edit the ~/.bashrc file like radar suggested and this is what I found in there already.

# If running interactively, then:
if [ "$PS1" ]; then

# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
# export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
eval `dircolors -b`
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
#alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'

# some more ls aliases
#alias ll='ls -l'
#alias la='ls -A'
#alias l='ls -CF'

# set a fancy prompt
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '

# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
#case $TERM in
#xterm*)
# PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
# ;;
#*)
# ;;
#esac

# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc).
#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
# . /etc/bash_completion
#fi
fi

Unless I'm wrong, the ls command should be using colors, for normal users, already.

I'm still going to try Radar's suggestion but I'm not too hopfull at this point.

[rameyd]

Edit .bash_profile and uncomment the following section. This will include the .bashrc file and enable colour when opening a bash shell.

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi

Don't quite know why colour isn't the default, but its an easy fix.

Dave