.bashrc help please

[TraciC]

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]

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:

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

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

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:

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]

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.