I'm trying to setup a simple alias to move me into my Developer folder on my machine. However, after setting it up, I get a weird error:
-bash: dv: command not found
I setup my alias in .bashrc like so:
alias dv='cd Developer/'
I use it by just typing dv, and then get that error. Does anyone see any syntax errors or something I'm missing here for aliases?
Run bash and then try the command.
Alternatively, put it in ~/.bash_profile which should be loaded automatically.
.profile and .bashrc are both loaded only when you start your shell.
exec bash to replace the old instance of bash with a new one (understanding that this wipes out other local state in that shell -- variables, functions defined, etc), or source ~/.bashrc to run all commands in the ~/.bashrc with the existing shell.
.bash_profile instead of .bashrc for exactly that reason. .bashrc is sourced by any (non-login) interactive shell; it's reasonable to expect that bash may be executed from within an existing bash session..bashrc is only read on startup. If you just modified your .bashrc then you need to get a new shell or get your current shell to see the changes applied:
source ~/.bashrc in your current shell (although this may cause some startup items to run twice, which could cause other issues)exec bash to get a new shell
[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc in my profile.Error:
-bash: alias: cd /opt/logs: not found alias log= "cd /opt/logs"
Solution :
Ensure there is no space after the = symbol
log="cd** /opt/logs"
from man bash:
Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the expand_aliases shell option is
set using shopt (see the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).
so if you want to use aliases on scripts, add this line in your script file:
shopt -s expand_aliases
Make sure the following line is present inside .bash_profile
test -f ~/.bashrc && . ~/.bashrc
If not then add it to the beginning. This code is used by .bash_profile to load up .bashrc.
If this line is not present inside .bash_profile then anything you type inside .bashrc will not be loaded.
Another solution is to call your command with bash using -i -c option:
bash -i -c my_alias
I had the same issue but the weirdest solution. I was copying it from Windows machine to OS X and for some reason, the spaces used were different and when I replaced them with normal spaces, it worked. It was not tabs, I have no idea what it was.
i had a similar issues while creating an alias for mongoDB; You can try putting the whole path inside .bash_profile in your home directory like so :
alias mongo="/c/Program\ Files/MongoDB/Server/5.0/bin/mongo.exe",
as i had done in my case; it worked perfectly after this
Had the same issue tried it without spaces worked like a charm Example-$ alias cls='clear' Thats all i did.
.bashrcis being read? On my machine,.bashrcis ignored and.profileis used instead.bashsession that is already a login shell.