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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: alias in .zprofile - strange effect
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:54:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803105405.GA7217@prunille.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280825977.3079.0@numa-i>

On 2010-08-03 10:59:37 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> And I've debugged it, .zprofile has been run during startup.

The .zprofile is sourced only by login shells. This is good for
environment variables (though I usually use .zshenv for that),
which are inherited by subprocesses, but not for aliases, which
are local to each shell instance. So, aliases need to be defined
by each shell instance. The .zshrc (sourced by interactive shells)
is generally what one wants for aliases. Of course they won't be
available in scripts.

I use a .zalias file, which I source from .zshrc:

  [[ -r ~/.zalias ]] && source ~/.zalias

and from scripts for which I want my usual aliases.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-03  8:59 Helmut Jarausch
2010-08-03  9:44 ` Jérémie Roquet
2010-08-03 10:54 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]

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