On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06@gmail.com> wrote:

my hard drive has /home on a different partition
it was failing fsck and to simplify I backed up my /home contents to a
backup hdd and then set it up again

how to I use 'bash' when /etc/shells already shows me using /bin/bash?

vim /home/dio/.bashrc
alias clearl="clear && ls -l"
~$ clearl
-bash: clearl: command not found
in terminal

Since you did not source your new .bashrc, your current shell does not know about the change. You needed to do ". .bashrc" without the quotes.

~$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

so I change to bash anyway:
~$ bash
~$ clearl (works fine)

Since you started a new shell with explicitly running bash, that bash re-initialized and saw your alias so it worked.

I've done this:

chsh -s /bin/bash
password ***
no luck

This is less clear what all you did in between, but if you are still in the original terminal and its shell, you still have not re-sourced .bashrc for that running shell

but I can type bash manually and I'm goold

~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/dio/sh:/home/dio/

cat ~/.bashrc
alias clearl="clear && ls -l"

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Mike Hoy
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