Why is my alias not working in Zsh?

Question

I have added my alias to ~/.aliases file and the file right now is like this:

alias gss="git status"
alias gl="git log"
alias pa="php artisan"
alias reload=". ~/.zshrc && echo 'ZSH config reloaded from ~/.zshrc'"

When I run gss, gl, reload they all work, but when I run pa I am getting an error zsh: command not found: pa why is that?

Solution 1

The problem was that I was editing the wrong file.

I edited my ~/.zshrc file to add the aliases. Everything works fine after that.

Solution 2

Alternatively, you can keep your aliases in ~/.aliases file itself which can be portable across systems but then add below lines at the end of ~/.zshrc to include all of them

#...more zsh config above

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

Comments

[C0deDaedalus]

Have you sourced the file ? Try this source ~/.aliases and then run commands.

[Dimitar]

i found my problem i wrote it as an answer so someone in need like me can read it.

[mostafaznv]

right approach.