oachim Backes wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 14:49 +0700, Yunus wrote:
Is there other way to make my custom alias (put in ~.bash_profile) work?
Just curious, but do they work if you put them in "~/.bashrc"?
Or in /etc/bashrc.
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.
Where exactly you put it in, defines whether it would be defined system-wide (in the '/etc/' files), for all bash instances (including scritpts) for a particular user (in the ~/.bashrc) or only for login shells for a particular user (in ~/.bash_profile).
Yunus: After adding the aliases to the file, you need to 'source' it into the current bash session to active the alias:
[steve@laptop ~]$ echo 'alias l="ls -al"' >> ~/.bash_profile [steve@laptop ~]$ source .bash_profile # or simply ". ~/.bash_profile" [steve@laptop ~]$ l
regards, - steve