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Asked: 2020-06-17 05:41:36 +0800 CST

Problem with executing alias of a command on Ubuntu 18.04

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I created an alias file for holding alias

nano .bash_aliases

and then used the command

alias ganache='./ganachescript'

However,

$ ./ganachescript

08:29:17.571 › Checking for update
08:29:19.052 › Update for version 2.4.0 is not available (latest version: 2.4.0, downgrade is disallowed).

but if I write:

$ ganache
ganache: command not found

Somebody please guide me.

scripts command-line bash alias

1 Answers

  1. That's a quite not-correct way to set an alias. The command ./ganachescript means 'execute the executable file ganachescript that exists in the current directory'. So the alias would work only when you run the ganache command in the specific directory where the ganachescript file is located.

    To overcome this you need to use the full path to the ganachescript file instead as below

    alias ganache='/path/to/ganachescript'
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