Home / ubuntu / Questions / 1015726
Accepted
glc78
Asked: 2018-03-18 03:28:26 +0800 CST

bash_aliases doesn't work [duplicate]

  • 772

I created the file ~/.bash_aliases within these lines:

# my alias here

eclipse="eclipse</dev/null &>/dev/null &"
okular="okular</dev/null &>/dev/null &"
libre="libreoffice</dev/null &>/dev/null &"

My ~/.bashrc is ready to find aliases:

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    . ~/.bash_aliases
fi

I then executed . ~/.basharc and also source .bashrc but aliases I created still don't work.

bash bashrc alias

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You have defined plain variables, not aliases.

    The alias definitions in bash must start with the keyword alias, so make the definitions as:

    alias eclipse="eclipse </dev/null &>/dev/null &"
alias okular="okular </dev/null &>/dev/null &"
alias libre="libreoffice </dev/null &>/dev/null &"
    • 7