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Old 05-23-2007
Question How to set alias and ps1 in a script
I am sure this is a newbie question, but I have searched everywhere and cannot find an answer.

My situation is that due security constraints, I cannot modify my .profile file. I have a set of fairly common things that would normally go in the .profile, like setting up alias assignments and setting ps1 to my preferred prompt, etc..

So I basically took what would be my .profile and renamed it to test.sh and run it manually after login. The script runs, but these commands (alias, ps1) don't work. After running I have no alias defined and my prompt does not change. If I take the exact commands from the file and paste them to the command line and run individually, they work fine.

I know that the script is running because if I add commands like echo or ls, they run and produce the correct output.

So, my question is why some commands (echo, ls) work and some (alias, ps1) do not?
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Old 05-23-2007
When you run test.sh, it ran in a new shell. You should run that in same shell to get alias to use in your current shell
Code:
. test.sh

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Old 05-23-2007
Thanks a bunch. I knew it had to be simple.
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