title: bash is acting up after "rm .bashrc*"
body: <p>So I am still fairly new to all of this, that is coding, OS X Snow Leopard, bash and the likes. I wanted to configure my prompt to display the current working directory. Knowing about Google I searched the web and tried a few linux bash tutorials that suggested configuring a <code>.bashrc</code> file, which I did and it didn't work. More googling got me to using a <code>.profile</code> file, which did the trick.</p>
  
  <p>So wanting to keep my OS tidy I applied more of my new bash knowledge and went</p>
  
  <pre><code>rm .bashrc*
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to delete the files I created. I must have been a little too thorough though, because I seem to have deleted more than I should have. When I fire up the shell now, I get a bunch of errors:</p>
  
  <pre><code>-bash: alias: dev: not found
  -bash: alias: =: not found
  -bash: alias: cd Downloads/Dropbox/__dev/: not found
  -bash: alias: sample_app: not found
  -bash: alias: =: not found
  -bash: alias: cd dev/rails_projects/sample_app/: not found
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The contents of my .profile is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>export PS1="\w&gt;"
  
  alias dev = 'cd Downloads/Dropbox/__dev/'
  alias sample_app  = 'cd dev/rails_projects/sample_app/'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any idea what I can do?!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks :)</p>