On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:40:43 -0430 "Patrick O'Callaghan" pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 11:27 +0000, Steve wrote:
Unfortunately, exporting aliases is not supported by bash (neither
in
/etc/profile nor ~/.bash_profile) :-(
No ! that's not right ! Of course it is supported. Aliases can be defined anywhere /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d/*, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash-profile ie: in any of the rc files.
These files are 'eval'ed, so their contents are executed in the context of the current shell.
A simple test shows that aliases are not exported:
[poc@bree:~] alias foo='ls -ld' [poc@bree:~] foo drwxr-xr-x 236 poc poc 20480 2008-12-01 01:07 . [poc@bree:~] bash [poc@bree:~] foo bash: foo: command not found
poc
After puting alias commands in bash.rc or profile.rc you have to run "bash" (whithout"") at the prompt. Then the aliases work henk