Defining aliases in bash

Thanks - I just renamed my .bashrc file to .bash_profile and it worked. Something must have reset all my aliases after my .bashrc was read in, but I had no ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile files and nothing in /etc/profile looked like it would reset the aliases either.

Any idea why 'man alias' doesn't work?

I get a slightly different MANPATH:

mueckmbp:~ mmueckti$ echo $MANPATH
/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/share/man

When I do 'man alias' the first few lines of what I get is:


BUILTIN(1) BSD General Commands Manual BUILTIN(1)

NAME
builtin, !, %, ., :, @, {, }, alias, alloc, bg, bind, bindkey, break, breaksw, builtins, case, cd,
chdir, command, complete, continue, default, dirs, do, done, echo, echotc, elif, else, end, endif,
endsw, esac, eval, exec, exit, export, false, fc, fg, filetest, fi, for, foreach, getopts, glob, goto,
hash, hashstat, history, hup, if, jobid, jobs, kill, limit, local, log, login, logout, ls-F, nice,
nohup, notify, onintr, popd, printenv, pushd, pwd, read, readonly, rehash, repeat, return, sched, set,
setenv, settc, setty, setvar, shift, source, stop, suspend, switch, telltc, test, then, time, times,
trap, true, type, ulimit, umask, unalias, uncomplete, unhash, unlimit, unset, unsetenv, until, wait,
where, which, while -- shell built-in commands

SYNOPSIS
builtin [-options] [args ...]

DESCRIPTION
Shell builtin commands are commands that can be executed within the running shell's process. Note
that, in the case of csh(1) builtin commands, the command is executed in a subshell if it occurs as any
component of a pipeline except the last.

If a command specified to the shell contains a slash ``/'', the shell will not execute a builtin com-
mand, even if the last component of the specified command matches the name of a builtin command. Thus,
while specifying ``echo'' causes a builtin command to be executed under shells that support the echo
builtin command, specifying ``/bin/echo'' or ``./echo'' does not.