For the life of me can’t find where terminal alias’s are stored

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So I have been playing around with aliases in bash and it is easy enough to add them.

alias lsl="ls -l"

My question is, where are they stored? I am using the bash shell, so I looked in the obvious places .bash_alias, .bashrc, etc… and these alias are nowhere to be found. Now, I guess if I had created a .bash_alias file they would have gone there, but since I never did, they must be stored somewhere else on my computer but I can't find them.

Can someone give me some ideas of where to look?

Best Answer

bash aliases you create by running the alias command are not stored anywhere, they are gone as soon as you exit the shell.

To make persistant aliases which will be available in all newly executed bash shells add the definition to ~/.bashrc. You can then also run source ~/.bashrc after adding new definitions to have them included in a running shell.

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