I have an “installer” script that installs a couple scripts and a directory for them. This works as expected. In the middle of my script I also have an alias I inject into the local .bashrc so that the script can be called from the commandline:
echo -e "..........Adding Alias" echo "alias Change=~/ChangeTool/Change" >> .bashrc echo -e "..............Recompiling environment" . ~/.bashrc I can confirm it does show up in my .bashrc when I run the installer. However, if I rm -rf my script directory, remove the line from (and recompile with . ./.bashrc) my .bashrc, and reinstall, I get “Change command not found”.
I then thought to myself “o.k., I’ll try again.” so I remove the line and recompile bashrc myself. I more .bashrc and it’s no longer there. Out of curiosity I tried the Change command and it worked.
Is there just some weird delay with installing aliases?
Edit: Here is the output on fresh install:
PSTSAUTO@MUXALRM:~$ ./installer.sh Installing [ ASR9K CHANGE TOOL ] ..........Targeting /home/PSTSAUTO/ ..........Getting raw tarball ..............Extracting the tarball ..........Adding Alias ..............Recompiling environment ..........Install Complete. PSTSAUTO@MUXALRM:~$ Change Change: command not found PSTSAUTO@MUXALRM:~$ grep "Change" .bashrc alias Change=~/ChangeTool/Change PSTSAUTO@MUXALRM:~$ So it’s there but it doesn’t work. As stated in code snippet above I did try to source with the . command.
