Shell Programming and Scripting

None of the aliases that I set are available if I switch to a different shell.

How can I export aliases and make them available in any shell that I switch to like ksh or bash ?

I tried these

Code:

 
$>alias godata='cd /home/kc/app/data'
$>alias -x godata='cd /home/kc/app/data'
$>alias | grep godata  # its available in current-shell
godata='cd /home/kc/app/data'
 
$>ksh                  # Here I am switching to a new ksh shell
 
$>alias | grep godata  # How can I export aliases so that I can access them here.
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AFAIK, each shell has its own shell-wide configuration file, e.g. on bash its .bashrc, .bash_profile, /etc/bashrc, etc.

To keep your alias set across different shells, you need to export it on a lower level -- /etc/profile should work for system wide config (all users). If you want to set the alias only for one user, define it in ${HOME}/.profile, which gets read when a new login shell is started.

Thanks mirni, it appears for my scenario executing same alias file(. ~/.setalias)
in .bashrc and .kshrc is the best solution.

I will take it from this that one can't export alias definition like PATH or EDITOR, when same user switches into other shells(bash/ksh/csh/!..).