Tutorial :aliases in .bashrc

Question:

I am completely new to UNIX, so pardon me if this question is incredibly stupid.

I just started an internship, where I'm given access to a build server. I want to include certain aliases by default in my environment when I log in. From what I understand, the way to do it would be to include them in a .bashrc file in my $HOME directory. But it doesn't seem to work. I read somewhere that only interactive shells and user scripts would be able to read it, is that the reason it doesn't work? I'm running Bash. So how would I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance!

Solution:1

iman453, the files need to be named .bashrc and .bash_profile. The period before the file means it is hidden. Any idea what version of Unix or Linux the build server is running?

In my home directory I have

.  |-- .bash_history  |-- .bash_logout  |-- .bash_profile  |-- .bashrc  |-- .mozilla  |   |-- extensions  |   `-- plugins  |-- .ssh  |   |-- .config  |   |-- authorized_keys  |   |-- authorized_keys2  |   `-- known_hosts  |-- .viminfo  |-- .vimrc

The contents of my .bashrc file are:

# .bashrc    # Source global definitions  if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then          . /etc/bashrc  fi    # User specific aliases and functions  alias chknag='sudo /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg'  alias ducks='sudo du -cksh * | sort -n | head -50'

The contents of .bash_profile:

# .bash_profile    # Get the aliases and functions  if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then          . ~/.bashrc  fi    # User specific environment and startup programs    PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin    export PATH

When I SSH into this machine after I authenticate I have access to the alias ducks.

Solution:2

In your ${HOME}/.bash_profile, add the following:

# source the users bashrc if it exists  if [ -e "${HOME}/.bashrc" ] ; then    source "${HOME}/.bashrc"  fi

Solution:3

From man bash:

When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interâ€ active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable.

and

When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files exist.

If, for example, you're logging in through a graphical user interface and then starting a terminal which is running Bash, then you're in an "interactive shell that is not a login shell".

Solution:4

You have to call .bashrc from your bash_profile. Refer here for Execution sequence for interactive login shell.

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