Issue creating alias with multiple arguments

Question

Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I open ~/.bashrc and I have added some aliases, like alias c=clear or alias h=history. These aliases are working.

Problem is here:

alias ls=ls -lhF --time-style=long-iso --color=auto

When I type ls in the terminal, it shows me different output than when I just type ls -lhF --time-style=long-iso --color=auto manually.

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tried that aswell, its still not working. Also when i type alias ls , i get that answer alias ls='ls --color=auto' so when i type manual alias ls=ls -lhF --time-style=long-iso --color=auto its looking complete diffrent

Answer 1

Edit your ~/.bashrc as follows :

Change alias ls='ls --color=auto' to alias ls='ls -lhF --time-style=long-iso --color=auto'

# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
    test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
    alias ls='ls -lhF --time-style=long-iso --color=auto'
fi

single quote is missing, then run exec $SHELL.

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Also you can put the new alias in your ~/.bash_aliases , changes will be applied after sourcing your ~/.bashrc through (present in ~/.bashrc) :

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi

avoid adding duplicate aliases after the above lines allowing changes in ~/.bash_aliases to take effects.