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An alias is essentially nothing more than a keyboard shortcut, an abbreviation, a means of avoiding typing a long command sequence. This can save a great deal of typing at the command-line and avoid having to remember complex combinations of commands and options.
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Why doesn't my Bash script recognize aliases?
If you look into the bash manpage you find:
Aliases are not expanded when the
shell is not interactive, unless the
expand_aliases shell option is set
using shopt (see the description of
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