From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 17:27: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228DD37B401 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:27:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from tigger.alkinetworks.com (tigger.alkinetworks.com [216.211.130.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7534843FBF for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from tigger.alkinetworks.com (tigger.alkinetworks.com [216.211.130.10]) by tigger.alkinetworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2L1R6Lw038706; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:27:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by tigger.alkinetworks.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h2L1R6GU038703; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:27:06 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: tigger.alkinetworks.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:27:06 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom X-X-Sender: philip@tigger.alkinetworks.com To: Earl Larsen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with scripts? In-Reply-To: <3E7A7DCA.9010303@cox.net> Message-ID: <20030320172626.L37126@tigger.alkinetworks.com> References: <3E7A7DCA.9010303@cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It completely depends on what shell you are using. Under tcsh you would add something like the following to your ~/.tcshrc and then relogin. alias 'on' 'mount /cdrom' it's something similar under bash, but I don't use bash so don't know. On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Earl Larsen wrote: > What I would like to know is how I can type like "go". And it does the > "ls -? -? |more" comand. Or I can type "on" and it does the "mount > /cdrom". I am slowly switching to FreeBSD on my system. And my wife is > windows handycap. And I want things to go smothly for her. So she can > use it. And for some quick types for me. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message