title: My Bash aliases don't work
body: <p>I'm not sure why but my Bash aliases don't seem to work. Here is my <code>.bashrc</code> file</p>
  
  <pre><code>    # v 0.0.1 - 7/03/12
  
  [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] &amp;&amp; source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*
  
  PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting
  
  # expanding history to 10000 commands
  export HISTSIZE=10000
  
  # don't store repeated commands more than once
  export HISCONTROL=ignoredups
  
  # where to look for Java
  export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home
  
  # tomcat server configuration
  export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/apache-tomcat-6.0.35
  
  # default editor
  export EDITOR=vim
  
  if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
      . ~/.bash_aliases
  fi
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my <code>.bash_aliases</code> file</p>
  
  <pre><code># v 0.0.1 - 7/03/12
  
  # aliases for directory traversal
  alias ..='cd ../'
  alias ...='cd ../../'
  alias ....='cd ../../../'
  
  alias gs='git status '
  alias ga='git add '
  alias gb='git branch '
  alias gc='git commit'
  alias gd='git diff'
  alias go='git checkout '
  alias gk='gitk --all&amp;'
  alias gx='gitx --all'
  
  alias got='git '
  alias get='git '
  </code></pre>