[plug] Problems with Redhat linx 6.0 (Pocket book edition)

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, V.Natarajan wrote:
> 2) There is an instruction to give alias for ls -la. The book states to
> write alias ||='ls -la -color' in the .bashrc file in the home directory
> under the mv alias and save it. When I did this it came up with the
> message 'syntax error at token |' or something to that effect.
That should be alias ll='ls -la -color'
                     ^^
The pipe symbol, '|', has a special meaning in a Unix shell.

-Greg