Apparently I am missing something which is frustrating me a bit. I have a user account on a Debian Etch system which is needing some additional aliases and rather than muck around with .bashrc, I would rather the aliases be placed in ~/.bash_aliases.
The user created aliases within a ~/.bash_aliases file having a permission setting of 600. I then removed the comments from ~/.bashrc allowing for this file to be read.
After a source .bashrc, . ~/.bash_aliases, the user logging out and logging back in, and a complete reboot - this file is still not being read as aliases are coming back as unknown commands.
This should be a fairly straight forward and easy task to accomplish. Below are the snippets:
~/.bashrc
# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
~/.bash_aliases
########################
# VNC Server aliases
########################
# end vnc server connection
killvnc="vncserver -kill :1"
# check if vnc server is already running
runvnc="ps -A | grep vnc"
(Note: it is ok if he uses :1 - vncserver runs off a non-standard port and my iptables ensures he's the person using it via MAC)
Any ideas what I'm missing here?
Thanks!
Michael
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10-26-2008, 10:39 AM
"Anton Piatek"
.bash_aliases setup
2008/10/26 zhuzhixin <zhuzhixin@realss.com>:
> GI_Mike - Herman von Mandel wrote:
>> Greetings to the list!
>>
>> Apparently I am missing something which is frustrating me a bit. I have a user account on a Debian Etch system which is needing some additional aliases and rather than muck around with .bashrc, I would rather the aliases be placed in ~/.bash_aliases.
>>
>> The user created aliases within a ~/.bash_aliases file having a permission setting of 600. I then removed the comments from ~/.bashrc allowing for this file to be read.
>>
>> After a source .bashrc, . ~/.bash_aliases, the user logging out and logging back in, and a complete reboot - this file is still not being read as aliases are coming back as unknown commands.
>>
>> This should be a fairly straight forward and easy task to accomplish. Below are the snippets:
>>
>
> I think the file .bash_aliases need permission to execute. For when you
> open a terminal, it invoke ~/.bashrc which will invoke .bash_aliases.
> Hope this will be help.
I think it is a different issue - sourcing (the . command in bash)
does not require execute permission. The problem is that bash just
loads and runs the aliases file, so each alias line still needs to be
formatted like a bash command: e.g.
alias ls='ls --color'
Try putting "alias" at the beginning of each of your aliases to see if
that works, otherwise it is probably just setting env variables
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significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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10-26-2008, 10:50 AM
Andrei Popescu
.bash_aliases setup
On Sun,26.Oct.08, 18:51:51, zhuzhixin wrote:
> I think the file .bash_aliases need permission to execute. For when you
> open a terminal, it invoke ~/.bashrc which will invoke .bash_aliases.
> Hope this will be help.
Sorry for being a nitpick, but you don't need execute permissions as
long as you only *source* the file (which is what was done here). The
OP's problem was due to the fact that he forgot to add the 'alias'
statement.
Regards,
Andrei
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10-26-2008, 09:51 PM
zhuzhixin
.bash_aliases setup
GI_Mike - Herman von Mandel wrote:
> Greetings to the list!
>
> Apparently I am missing something which is frustrating me a bit. I have a user account on a Debian Etch system which is needing some additional aliases and rather than muck around with .bashrc, I would rather the aliases be placed in ~/.bash_aliases.
>
> The user created aliases within a ~/.bash_aliases file having a permission setting of 600. I then removed the comments from ~/.bashrc allowing for this file to be read.
>
> After a source .bashrc, . ~/.bash_aliases, the user logging out and logging back in, and a complete reboot - this file is still not being read as aliases are coming back as unknown commands.
>
> This should be a fairly straight forward and easy task to accomplish. Below are the snippets:
>
I think the file .bash_aliases need permission to execute. For when you
open a terminal, it invoke ~/.bashrc which will invoke .bash_aliases.
Hope this will be help.
> ~/.bashrc
> # Alias definitions.
> # You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
> # ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
> # See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
>
> if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
> . ~/.bash_aliases
> fi
>
> ~/.bash_aliases
> ########################
> # VNC Server aliases
> ########################
>
> # create vnc server connection
> vncsmall="vncserver -depth 24 -geometry 800x600 :1"
> vncbig="vncserver -depth 24 -geometry 1024x768 :1"
>
> # end vnc server connection
> killvnc="vncserver -kill :1"
>
> # check if vnc server is already running
> runvnc="ps -A | grep vnc"
>
> (Note: it is ok if he uses :1 - vncserver runs off a non-standard port and my iptables ensures he's the person using it via MAC)
>
> Any ideas what I'm missing here?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael
>
>
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10-26-2008, 11:41 PM
zhuzhixin
.bash_aliases setup
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Sorry for being a nitpick, but you don't need execute permissions as
> long as you only *source* the file (which is what was done here). The
> OP's problem was due to the fact that he forgot to add the 'alias'
> statement.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
Thanks very much:-)
Regards,
Zhu Zhixin
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