Try specifying the entire path to it ie:
. /home/john/.bash_aliases
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
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
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