Konsole is a little ignorant

[darren7659]

Hi, I opened Konsole and said hello. It replied

Command 'hello' not found

which I thought quite rude.

So I typed alias hello='echo "Hello Darren, what would you like to do today?"' so now I type hello and it says

Hello Darren, what would you like to do today?: command not found

How do I get rid of the command not found part please?

Oh, and do I put that in .bashrc to make it permanent?

Thanks

[oshunluvr]

Worked like a charm here:

stuart@office:~$
stuart@office:~$ hello
Hello Darren, what would you like to do today?
stuart@office:~$​

Odd thing is my name is not Darren.

Maybe you've done something in .bashrc or .profile (like in your prompt) that's giving you the command not found message?

You would put it in alias in ~/.bash_aliases.

[Snowhog]

You would put an alias in ~/.bash_aliases.

Writing the alias exactly as the OP (but changed Darren to Paul), and updating the alias file (source ~/.bash_aliases), then typing hello produces Hello Paul, what would you like to do today? Yeah, works correctly.

[oshunluvr]

but Paul isn't my name either...

[darren7659]

Cheers to the two of you. I put it in .bashrc and it works correctly. It was only when I fed it into Konsole directly and tested it I got the command not found part

[oshunluvr]

Cheers to the two of you. I put it in .bashrc and it works correctly. It was only when I fed it into Konsole directly and tested it I got the command not found part

Honestly, .bashrc isn't the best place for aliases - that's what .bash_aliases if for. The reason is, it's possible that some update or another down the road could replace .bashrc thus deleting your edit. .bash_aliases is never updated by an outside process and intended to persist as you have made it.

Just food for thought...