Want to save my alias in Linux
On 2006-04-08, Japan
Too many is probably correct. Under the ALIASES section of the bash man page, it says, "For almost every purpose, aliases are superseded by shell functions."
Consider using functions rather than aliases, especially for more complex aliases. Functions can be exported so that child shells can use them without their being reloaded; aliases cannot.
Whether you use aliases or functions, they need to be stored in a file that is sourced when your shell is invoked.
Bash sources different files depending on how it is invoked. Login shells sourceetc-profile and ~-.bashprofile; other interactive shells source ~-.bashrc.
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Other files may be sourced, but that is dependent on their being called by one of the scripts mentioned above. It is not a good idea to depend on (for example)etc-bashrc or files inetc-profile.d being sourced. In fact, I comment them out as soon as I have installed any distro which uses them.
It is common for ~-.bashrc to be sourced by ~-.bashprofile with lines like this:
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if -f $HOME-.bashrc ; then source $HOME-.bashrc fi
If you want ~-.bashrc to be sourced by all interactive shells, this is a good idea, and you can put your aliases and function in ~-.bashrc.
Alternatively, you can put your aliases and functions in a separate file or files and source it (or them) from both ~-.bashprofile and ~-.bashrc.
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