.bashrc help please

TraciC · #1 October 1st, 2009, 06:53 AM

Hi,
Sorry for asking what is sure to be a stupidly easy question... what have I done wrong that makes my MacBook Pro (snow leopard) not recognize the aliases I've tried to add to my .bashrc file? They're super simple:

alias ll="ls -l"
alias la="ls -a"

I need to solve this problem before working on my rsync shell script. Thanks for your help!

-Traci

macbri · #2 October 1st, 2009, 07:48 AM

Here's my setup (don't know when I set this up, but it works)

Check that you have a .bash_profile and it contains:

Code:

if [ -e ~/.bashrc ]; then
    source ~/.bashrc
fi

ElDiabloConCaca · #3 October 1st, 2009, 09:30 AM

Also, if I'm not mistaken (and it could very well work both ways), but in bash, enclosing a command should be done with single-quote characters (not double-quote), like so:

Code:

alias ll='ls -laFG'

...although I just tested it with double-quotes and it seems to work ok as well.

Just throwin' that out there...

TraciC · #4 October 1st, 2009, 10:03 AM

Thanks a lot guys. Believe it or not, wasn't in the bash shell, so have fixed THAT and now things work. God what a newbie.

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