[Nix-dev] Defining system-wide shell aliases

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:00:29 +0200, "Rickard Nilsson" <rickard.nilsson at telia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to define system-wide shell aliases. environment.shellInit doesn't  
> help me, since it is only run for login shells, and aliases are not  
> inherited between processes. Essentially, I would like a way to put stuff  
> into /etc/bashrc. Is it wise adding an option to NixOS for doing this  
> (environment.shellSource or something)? Or can it be solved in some other  
> way?

Aliases work across different shells, what about:

/etc/aliasrc
environment.aliasrc

And then adapt the generated config for zsh and bash to include that.

Not sure whether there is a better approach in general.

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