Re: [solved] Re: Setting up aliases to work also in tty* consoles?
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 05:32:09PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
> > Once more, from the top:
> >
> > 1) ~/.bash_profile should source ~/.bashrc
> > 2) Shell functions and aliases and shopts and sets and other transient
> > settings should go in ~/.bashrc
> > 3) Environment variables and other NON-transient settings should go in
> > ~/.bash_profile
> My alias:
>
> alias mplayer='mplayer -demuxer lavf'
>
> works, for tty* consoles, if I put it in ~/.bash_profile. Instead, if I put it
> in ~/.bashrc, it doesn't work within tty* but only within graphical system.
Refer to step 1. Make sure ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.bashrc.
Debian provides a ~/.profile by default in jessie and stretch, so
~/.bash_profile is either something you wrote, or something you
inherited from an older system.
Make ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bashrc.
If you need help with that, you can paste the code from /etc/skel/.profile
starting with "# if running bash" and ending with the second "fi" line
which follows that comment.
~/.bash_profile must source ~/.bashrc
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