Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ Flamingo ] on Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:27 \__
>
>> Hi Gurus,
>>
>> I'm not so good at linux. Now a problem puzzles me, my lovely eclipse
>> installed at my home directory(installed by somebody else), everytime
>> I have to do something like this:
>>
>> $ cd /home/wx/eclipse
>> $ ./eclipse
>>
>> then I can start eclipse.
>>
>> How I can directly use "eclipse" at any directory, not limited in
>> /home/wx/eclipse. Is it about how to set global envirment?
>>
>> thanks for kind reply. any help is appreciated!
>
> alias eclipse='/home/wx/eclipse/eclipse'
>
> Add this to your startup scripts, e.g. .bashrc. This depends on the shell and
> the distribution. In my case:
>
> ,----[ ~/.bashrc ]
> | test -s /home/roy/Main/Programs/Scripts/Definitions/bashrc
> | && . /home/roy/Main/Programs/Scripts/Definitions/bashrc
> | [[ -f "/home/roy/.config/autopackage/paths-bash" ]] && .
> | "/home/roy/.config/autopackage/paths-bash"
> `----
>
> /home/roy/Main/Programs/Scripts/Definitions/bashrc contains:
>
> ,----[ Contents ]
> | echo Setting up aliases...
> | echo
> |
> | . /home/roy/Main/Programs/Scripts/aliases.sh
> `----
>
> home/roy/Main/Programs/Scripts/aliases contains
>
>
> ,----[ Contents ]
> | #!/bin/bash
> |
> | alias dir='ls -la --color=always'
> | alias dir/p='ls -la --color=always |more'
> | alias dir/w='ls --color=always -X'
> | ...
> `----
>
> It can be made simpler by just including the last bits in .bashrc, but then
> it's more prone to breakage.
>
> Hope it helps,
Way to go and complicate it.
alias is for amateurs and peoplpe who want bash to look like DOS or VMS
or somesuch :)
alias is not a good idea here because there is a good chance there will
be other tools required in the same directoy. Just IMO, of course.
>
> Roy
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