Dear Lionel,
I have aliases defined in .sh files in my /etc/profile.d/ folder. When I log in
on my computer directly in either KDE or Gnome, in any terminal (I tried
Konsole, x-term and a few others), these aliases are not working (not set, I
assume). Other commands in the same .sh files (like additions to $PATH) work
fine.
When I log in with the same user through ssh, or directly on the computer on a
text console (I don’t know how these are called: you access them through
alt+ctrl+2 for example), or with another user in Gnome or KDE, the aliases work
again.
The man page for bash says:
Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the
expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt (see the description of
shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).
It looks to me as if some of your shells do not think they are interactive.
Shane
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Shane Voss, Computing Officer, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
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