RE: Bash Aliases problem
On 29-Oct-99 prabhakar chaganti wrote:
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> Hi everyone:
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> I am trying to set up some aliases for frequently used commands. I have
> tried adding them to ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc,but have not
> had any luck in getting bash to recognize the aliases.Would there be any
> reason at all that my ~/.bashrc would not get read by bash. After making the
> changes, I have tried both logging out and logging back in, and sourcing the
> .bashrc file to try to get bash to see the aliases. I checked to see if
> there is any syntax error by trying out each alias from the comma
> ndline. All of them seem to work. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I am
> doing wrong here??
~/.bashrc is for non-login shells. Have you tried adding them to ~/.profile
or ~/.bash_profile ?
I put my aliases in ~/.bashrc BUT I have in my ~/.bash_profile the line:
source $HOME/.bashrc
This is so that when I use a non-login shell or a login shell, my aliases will
still be read. .bashrc takes care of the non-login shells, whereas if I am on
a login shell, .bash_profile will source the .bashrc file.
I don't know if that is *the right way*, but that is how I do it.
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