aliases

Primoz · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

I edited my /etc/bashrc but my aliases are not working. Need some help here please...

nephros · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:28 pm Post subject:

Indeed.

It will only work if bash has had the possibility to re-read it after saving.
Did you do a fresh login since editing?
Alternatively, you can do a "source .bashrc"

Do you get any errors when you do?
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Primoz · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

I did a fresh login/reboot, it doesnt help.
"source .bashrc" does the trick, no errors.

It's puzzling me...

nephros · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject:

Sorry, I misread your first post and thought you meant .bashrc instead of /etc/bashrc.
You would of course have to "source" the file you edited.

AFAIK Gentoos bash setup doesn't use /etc/bashrc anymore, try /etc/bash/bashrc instead.

Also, posting the stuff you edited really could help.
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Primoz · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

Well that certainly explained a lot

Thanks for the help, I edited the wrong file :oops:

nephros · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject:

Glad I could help, though I didn't do anything really

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