bash aliases(solved)

[E.K.Virtanen]

Hi all.

I tried to search help for this one, but seems like finding good searching terms is my biggest problem I would like to create a seperated file, where i gather bash aliases i like to use. My history with ubuntu might be the problem, need more time to rethink

For a start, i did uncomment next lines from .bashrc

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if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    . ~/.bash_aliases
fi


Then i added next lines to .bash_aliases

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alias prog=’cd ~/Programming’
alias proj=’cd ~/Programming/Projects’


I restarted terminal and typed proj and result is

bash: proj: command not found

Can someone bend from ironwire for a dumb (that's me), what i am doing wrong

[saulgoode]

You likely need to instruct bash to expand the arguments to aliases:

shopt -s expand_aliases

[aspnair]

You likely need to instruct bash to expand the arguments to aliases:

shopt -s expand_aliases

Normally this is done by default for interactive shells.

Anyway you could try the following
* shopt (without any any parameters to make sure that expand_aliases is set)
* alias (without any parameters to show the current list of aliases) and make sure that whatever you entered is listed there.

[Telemachus]

For whatever it's worth, I think that an alias is the wrong tool for this job anyhow. Instead of setting a custom alias for each folder, set your CDPATH variable. It takes a colon-separated list of directories to consider when you start a cd command.

Here's mine, for example:

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export CDPATH='.:~:~/git_code:~/unix_varia:~/iliumSvn/'


This tells cd to look at my current directory (the .), then my home, and so on in the appropriate order. It also gives me tab-completion for folders directly below any of those.

So, in your case, you might try this:

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export CDPATH='.:~:~/Programming'


You could then cd easily into Programming or Projects with tab-completion.

[E.K.Virtanen]

You likely need to instruct bash to expand the arguments to aliases:

shopt -s expand_aliases

Thanks. This was new thing for me, but it did something since after i used your hint and restarted terminal, my aliases started to work. I dont have a clue what and why happened, but they works and im fine with it

For whatever it's worth, I think that an alias is the wrong tool for this job anyhow. Instead of setting a custom alias for each folder, set your...

You are propably right. Thanks for your hint.