Bash alias defined in script not working within the script

Asked Oct 29 '17 at 22:17

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I found a weird thing:

When I do in the console,

alias a='echo aaa'
a

I get the output aaa as expected. But when I do a script, let's name it script.sh

#!/bin/bash
alias a='echo aaa'
a

and run it by doing bash script.sh, I get script.sh: line 2: a: command not found

How is this possible and how can I fix it?

asked Oct 29 '17 at 22:17

karlosss

Just try to change a alias to a simple variable, like this: – Franciscon Santos Oct 29 '17 at 22:53
#!/bin/bash alias a='echo aaa' a – Franciscon Santos Oct 29 '17 at 22:54

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