Re: Strange Problem with 'alias'

[Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 15:10 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks, I see that now!! Incidentally, that is how I have my system set
up sourcing ~/.bashrc.  I just didn't immediately see the difference.
You are right, putting anything in two places like that is just asking
for trouble later on down the line.

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