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Hey Guys,

Is there a way to make aliases available in a shell? I tried sourcing a file with aliases before invoking my alias with no luck… ie:

shell: . ~/.bash_aliases && my_command args

Any help would be appreciated.

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Is there a way to make aliases available in a shell? I tried sourcing a file with aliases before invoking my alias with no luck

https://linux.die.net/man/1/bash :

Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt

Cheers,
Paul

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Thanks Paul, that makes sense.

Is it possible to set this behavior within Ansible? I tried the following without any luck…

shell: rs -z blah_blah
args:
creates: “{{ current_flags }}/{{ item }}_{{ ansible_date_time.date }}”
executable: /bin/bash +O expand_aliases

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Is it possible to set this behavior within Ansible? I tried the following without any luck…

I would recommend that you don’t use aliases in non-interactive shells. If the script grows, maybe use the script-module instead https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/script_module.html . Another option is to use shell functions instead of aliases.

Cheers,
Paul