How to symlink alias and function dotfiles

Question

I trying to make my own alises. I have this in my ~/dotfiles:

alias hello="echo Hello"

I try to symlink this:

ln -sn "~/dotfiles/.alias" ~

But after this when i run my alias nothing happens Is there a path for aliases in home to symlink it?

Answer 1

Make sure you are sourcing your aliases file in your .bashrc or .zshrc

the code for that in your .bashrc or .zshrc should look something like this:

if [ -f ~/dotfiles/.aliases ];
then source ~/dotfiles/.aliases
fi