Hi guys...
I have a ksh shell by default, so when I login to my unix box, all my .profile statements gets executed(including the aliases).
But for some reasons(may be not comfortable using ksh), I would always switch to BASH(in the same session but as a child process) but in the process I am loosing all the aliases which were active in my parent (ksh)...
I understand that by typing BASH at the cmd line, I am starting a child process which should atleast inherit the charateristics(aliases etc) of the immediate parent....But in this case, its not happening.
Can somebody explain me this scenario?...and If there is a best(minimal) way to have the similar behavior as the parent, what would that be?...

PS: Please don't advice to DOT the profile once again !

-Anduzzi