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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] alias foo='ls -ld' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] foo drwxr-xr-x 236 poc poc 20480 2008-12-01 01:07 . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] bash [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] foo bash: foo: command not found poc -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
