Alias defined in .bash_profile not working in OS X

Question

I have defined three aliases in my .bash_profile but my bash shell is not reading it. The aliases defined are not working in my terminal and I couldn\'t resolve

Answer 1

We still don't know why aliases are not loaded automatically.

Your aliases should be loaded from the .bash_profile. This is the default behaviour of bash in OS X.

mklement0 wrote more about the problem in their answer in this thread.

A hacky workaround

Open the Preferences of the Terminal. You specify the command you start your shell with:

Instead of manually sourcing your dotfiles every time you can specify which file you want to source when the shell opens. Here is the list of options for bash:

Usage:  bash [GNU long option] [option] ...
    bash [GNU long option] [option] script-file ...
GNU long options:
    --debug
    --debugger
    --dump-po-strings
    --dump-strings
    --help
    --init-file
    --login
    --noediting
    --noprofile
    --norc
    --posix
    --protected
    --rcfile
    --restricted
    --verbose
    --version
    --wordexp
Shell options:
    -irsD or -c command or -O shopt_option      (invocation only)
    -abefhkmnptuvxBCHP or -o option

You might consider using /bin/bash --rcfile alias_file_of_yours or something similar.

Go for goat if you need aliases using the cd command.

As a side note I do recommend you to check out goat. It lets you manage such cd aliases easily.

I use it and I wrote it.