On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 05:32:09PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > > Once more, from the top: > > > > 1) ~/.bash_profile should source ~/.bashrc > > 2) Shell functions and aliases and shopts and sets and other transient > > settings should go in ~/.bashrc > > 3) Environment variables and other NON-transient settings should go in > > ~/.bash_profile
> My alias: > > alias mplayer='mplayer -demuxer lavf' > > works, for tty* consoles, if I put it in ~/.bash_profile. Instead, if I put > it > in ~/.bashrc, it doesn't work within tty* but only within graphical system. Refer to step 1. Make sure ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.bashrc. Debian provides a ~/.profile by default in jessie and stretch, so ~/.bash_profile is either something you wrote, or something you inherited from an older system. Make ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bashrc. If you need help with that, you can paste the code from /etc/skel/.profile starting with "# if running bash" and ending with the second "fi" line which follows that comment. ~/.bash_profile must source ~/.bashrc
