- Open a shell (terminal) window
- Use kedit (see below) to edit your .bashrc file to alias the ls command so that it lists not just file names, but also the "hidden files" (those having names beginning with a period), and the permissions for each file or directory as well. Edit the .bashrc file to include this alias. Place the command below everything in the file when you open it, and continue adding any other edits below that.
- Create in your home directory the subdirectories scr (which will hold various scratch files), PCModel, Spartan, and Gaussian. These latter are for the data files generated by these programs.
- The executables for most of our programs are stored in subdirectories of /usr/local. Go there. Find the subdirectory for PCModel. Locate the executable for PCModel and note its name.
- Use kedit to edit your .bashrc file to include an alias to run PCModel, so that you do not have to type the full path to the program each time you run it:
- Make bash reread its configuration file, and type your command to see that it does indeed start up PCModel
- Email me the steps you will use to accomplish these tasks, before you try them.
Text editor kedit is available on all machines by typing "kedit" in a shell window. The older computers also have the similar program gedit. Neither of these programs will include the "dot files" in the File Open menu. So to load .bashrc, you will have to start them with the command "kedit .bashrc".