PIRL Aliases Guide
There are MANY aliases that are defined in the PIRL global login.
These aliases are designed to make life easier and are available
to all PIRL users that use csh or tcsh as their default
login shell. Note that /bin/csh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/bash,
and /bin/sh (for masochists) are all available as default shells
(see chsh man page), but only csh and tcsh are
presently supported
in the global login procedures. Would you like to help us support
bash? send mail to sys@pirl!
You can see a list of the defined aliases by typing "aliases". Note
that there are a zillion defined aliases. Some do useful things.
Other aliases' purpose has been lost in the mists of time, but
linger on..
Automatic tar file compression/decompression
The following aliases basically combine two common steps: the
creation of a tar file, and then the compression of it. Why
not do both at the same time?
- zpack: Create a compressed tar file from a directory.
Example: "zpack directoryname" will create a compressed tar
file called "directoryname.tgz".
- zunpack: Uncompress and extract a compressed tar file.
Example: "zunpack tarfile.tar.gz" (extension is not important,
but is usually ".tar.gz", ".tar.Z", or ".tgz").
- zlook: Look at the contents of a compressed tar file.
Example: "zlook filename.tgz" (see zunpack).
More stuff to come!
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