alias howto?

inp3dance · 2011-03-19 21:57:14

Hi,
I just installed pacman-color and made a file in /etc/profile.d called my-aliases.sh, which contains
alias pacman='pacman-color'
The files's owner is root:root with attributes set 775.

However, if I start a terminal and do something with pacman, the output is not color, but if I run source /etc/profile first, then pacman's output became color. So the alias is not set automatic, but only if I run source /etc/profile first.
Can somebody explain me why?

fukawi2 · 2011-03-19 22:01:26

This should explain everything...
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/vi … ofile.html

inp3dance · 2011-03-19 22:22:58

Sorry fukawi2, I didn't found a response why my file isn't executed when a shell starts.
Plus information, I have a similar file to set some extra paths, which is working.

some-guy94 · 2011-03-19 23:55:09

Looks like the file isn't being sourced.

falconindy · 2011-03-20 00:35:42

aliases do not belong in files run on a login shell as they are only sourced for a interactive shell. The short form of this meaning that they should be placed in ~/.bashrc.

fukawi2 · 2011-03-20 01:46:05

inp3dance wrote:

Sorry fukawi2, I didn't found a response why my file isn't executed when a shell starts.

Basically, bash doesn't source anything from /etc/ when it starts, only your home directory. Your own .bashrc or .bash_profile needs to source the files from /etc/

inp3dance · 2011-03-20 12:15:11

I read a bit more, but correct me if I'm wrong: path is a login environment variable, while alias is a bash-only variable, and because of this, they are set differently ?

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alias howto?

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