[ILUG] aliases in bash

[Ross Lynch]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Wesley Darlington wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:35:30PM +0100, Ross Lynch wrote:
> > Trying to set aliases in a shell script that remain active when the shell
> > script is finished running. How is it done?
> 
> You want a program to export variables/aliases to its *parent*? I don't
> think it can be done without some magic in the parent. Either that or
> do you just mean `source'ing a shell script? 

Could be a stupid question, but how come "alias blah=xyz" in a .bashrc
works?

Ross.

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