Bash Can't see aliases file

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, John Wheat wrote:

>  I have recently reinstall Ubuntu and saved my /home. Everything seems to work
> except my aliases. I have a ~/.bash_aliases and uncommented the line in
> ~/.bashrc that tells bash to use the aliases file except it tells me over and
> over the file doesn't exist. I have mv'd and renamed the left over from my
> last install and mv'd again to .bash_aliases but bash just refuses to see it.
> Any help on this appreciated.

Show us.

Show us the relevant lines form your ~/.bashrc.

And show use the ls -l of that ~/.bash_aliases file.

By the way, do you need your aliases read every time your bash is started 
interactively? Maybe in a ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile is fine.

 Jeremy C. Reed