On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 11:27 +0000, Steve wrote:
> Unfortunately, exporting aliases is not supported by bash
(neither
in
> /etc/profile nor ~/.bash_profile) :-(
No ! that's not right ! Of course it is supported. Aliases can be
defined anywhere /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d/*,
~/.bashrc, ~/.bash-profile ie: in any of the rc files.
These files are 'eval'ed, so their contents are executed in the context
of the current shell.
A simple test shows that aliases are not exported:
[poc@bree:~] alias foo='ls -ld'
[poc@bree:~] foo
drwxr-xr-x 236 poc poc 20480 2008-12-01 01:07 .
[poc@bree:~] bash
[poc@bree:~] foo
bash: foo: command not found
poc