How to make custom alias in ~.bash_profile work on F10 86_64

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 11:27 +0000, Steve wrote:
> > Unfortunately, exporting aliases is not supported by bash (neither
> in 
> > /etc/profile nor ~/.bash_profile) :-(
> 
> No ! that's not right ! Of course it is supported. Aliases can be
> defined anywhere /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d/*,
> ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash-profile  ie: in any of the rc files.

These files are 'eval'ed, so their contents are executed in the context
of the current shell.

A simple test shows that aliases are not exported:

[poc at bree:~] alias foo='ls -ld'
[poc at bree:~] foo
drwxr-xr-x 236 poc poc 20480 2008-12-01 01:07 .
[poc at bree:~] bash
[poc at bree:~] foo
bash: foo: command not found

poc