Question

I want to run some alias command in bash’s non-interactive mode. But seems Ubuntu ignore BAHS_ENV. How can I make it work? la is a alias command. And I tested in other linux. it is work fine. Just Ubuntu not work.

BASH_ENV=~/.profile bash -O expand_aliases -c la

Answer 1

I just logged in an Ubuntu box (12.04.1), and it works fine:

Create a file test_bash_env that contains the following script:

#!/bin/bash

echo "This is a test for BASH_ENV, the value of which is: \`$BASH_ENV'"

Then, we happily have:

gniourf@ubuntubox:~/Test$ BASH_ENV=./test_bash_env bash -c 'echo "Hello, BASH_ENV!"'
This is a test for BASH_ENV, the value of which is: `./test_bash_env'
Hello, BASH_ENV!

Did you mispell a variable or something?