Typically we interact with the Linux operating system through what is referred to as a shell interpreter. A common interpreter is the Bourne Again Shell, which people call by the catchy name of bash ...

I added alias to .bash_profile file.<BR>alias mysqlcon="mysql -h localhost -u user -ppass pic"<BR><BR>Why each time I reboot the computer I have to do . .bash_profile? When I do this, the alias works.

User profiles aren’t restricted to what shells your users use, what groups they are members of, and what privileges they have been allocated. While these factors are important, so are when they log in ...