[GRASS-user] loss of bash aliases

[Hamish]

Philipp Steigenberger wrote:
> why does the test refer to .alias?

AFAIK it is just historically a common place to put them. I have no
idea if it conforms to SUS, but it seems to me cleaner than having a
huge pile of aliases in ~/.bashrc and at least once upon a time was
common.
shrug.

> As I wrote in the attached mail the 
> bash-alias-file should be .bash_aliases

In .grass.bashrc you can call it whatever you like.


> And what I don't understand either, not even if in the .grass.bashrc
> is defined
> 
> if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
>      . ~/.bash_aliases
> fi
> 
> the aliases work in grass.

because "~" has been redefined to be your mapset dir...?
try in your .grass.bashrc calling it with the full path to the file,
/home/you/.bash_aliases

> ... oh now I understand, do I? Do I have to change this entry in
> 
> if [ -f $USERHOME/.bash_aliases ]; then
>      . $USERHOME/.bash_aliases
> fi
> 
> ???
> 
> No... does not work ;o(

$USERHOME is not exported from Init.sh so cannot be seen in the child
..grass.bashrc script.


> Greets to the other side of the globe

& back again,
Hamish



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