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
.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 shellRun bash
and then try the command.
Alternatively, put it in ~/.bash_profile
which should be loaded automatically.
Another solution is to call your command with bash using -i -c option:
bash -i -c my_alias
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"
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.
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.