New aliases in .bashrc

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1

It looks like the .bashrc in Ubuntu got rather complicated compared to other distros.

I added the ls alias but it does not work.

some more ls aliases

alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'
alians ls="ls -lAxot --time-style="+%m-%d-%Y""

andy@7:~/Icons$ type ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

2

I found my mistake.

alians :slight_smile:

3

I just added an alias (alias ll='echo "test"') to the bottom of .bashrc, and it worked when I opened a new terminal.

You can also create the file .bash_aliases and add them there if you want a simpler file to edit.

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4

Thanks.

A single file for just aliases is much easier.

5

elcste,

I think you left out that I needed to add this to my .bashrc.

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

6

I left it out because it’s in Ubuntu’s default .bashrc¹, but yes you are correct.

1: Here’s the section:

# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.

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