I am trying to create an alias and I have added this line in ~/.bash_aliases:

alias server-python='open http://localhost:8000 && python -m SimpleHTTPServer'

alias ssh-saad='ssh saad@<my-server>' <my-server> is replaced by the IP address of my server. So in my ~/.bashrc file these lines are uncommented

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then

    . ~/.bash_aliases

fi

and in my ~/.profile:

# if running bash

if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then

    # include .bashrc if it exists

    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then

    . "$HOME/.bashrc"

    fi

fi

I believe that whenever I start the terminal my aliases should work. However, unless I run the command source ~/.bash_aliases it’s not working. Also, for the first server-python alias I am getting an error:

Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

I have looked into these solutions here:

How to create a permanent "alias"?

Ubuntu alias not applied in bashrc

but still cannot make it work. I would really appreciate it if someone could point out to me what I am doing wrong. I know that the problem is very trivial, but I must be just missing something.

I have now fixed the error

Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

by using sensible-browser instead of open:

alias server-python='sensible-browser http://localhost:8000 && python -m SimpleHTTPServer'