I am running MAC OS X.
I added a new alias to my .profile. Now, when I open a terminal window, I get a message saying that the alias cannot be found. Do I have to do some sort of exporting to get the change to my .profile to take affect?
As 开发者_运维知识库requested, my .profile.
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/local/lib
alias sl='ls'
alias pwd='echo -n `pwd` | pbcopy'
You need to source your profile:
source .profile
Have you checked that you are using bash
(or ksh
) which reads .profile
and not tcsh
(the default shell on MacOS X) which does not read .profile
?
Do any other commands in your profile get executed?
The alias not working is:
alias pwd='echo -n `pwd` | pbcopy'
The issue there is: what command is executed when the
`pwd`
is executed -- oops; it's the alias? Try:
alias pwd='echo -n $(/bin/pwd) | pbcopy'
We could also argue that you can use just:
alias pwd='/bin/pwd | pbcopy'
If you're running leopard or snow leopard then you should put the alias into .bash_login, not .profile.
That's if you're using bash of course, which Mac OS X does by default I believe.
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