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 -- Linux Centric Marketplace: http://www.tuxcompatible.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
