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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers problems with aliases on Mac Post 302130308 by zazzybob on Sunday 5th of August 2007 01:25:29 AM
Old 08-05-2007
You need a space between the . and $ in .$ALIAS

. $ALIAS

Also; the shell may be having trouble expanding the tilde, so specify it thus:

ALIAS=$HOME/.alias

Check that you don't have a .bash_profile (or .bash_login) if you're using bash, or it'll ignore .profile altogether - check the "INVOCATION" section of the bash manpage for more.

EDIT: Here's the pertinent section from the manpage
Quote:
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.
Cheers
ZB
 

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