From what I understand, shell aliases are in-memory stuff like %ENV vars -- so the reason you can't execute them is because they aren't defined

So the solution is to source your profile some how, or a better idea

is to turn all your aliases into shell scripts, say add ~/mybin to your path where you have "myalias" which is a shell script (and not an alias), then as long as ~/mybin is in your path you don't need to source .profile... to load your aliases

• bash alias suggest-ation
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• Set shell environment variables from within a perl script
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• Reading and setting the environment from a shell script for the calling program
• Importing environment variables from shell script file to Perl
• sourcing a shell script/.profile and importing into %ENV
• setting perl ENV from file
• Changing parent process environment variable

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