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Re: Strange Problem with 'alias'



On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:08:02PM -0600, Michael Milliman wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 15:04 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:37:34PM -0500, Henning wrote:
> > > Put your aliases into .bash_ptofile
> > 
> > No, don't do that.  Make your login shell profile source or dot in
> > ~/.bashrc instead.
> > 
> Ok, now I have to ask the queston, maybe a tangent and maybe not
> important to OP, but why is it better to source in .bashrc from .profile
> rather than putting the commands in .bash_profile??

When you run a non-login shell, it reads ~/.bashrc only.  So the aliases
have to be there, or they won't be read at all.

Putting a second copy of your aliases in ~/.bash_profile means you have
to keep both copies in sync.  It's silly and error-prone and wasteful
of disk space.


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