bash - Commands from .bashrc not available in Emacs

Question

I have some aliases and functions defined in ~/.bashrc.

I start emacs from a terminal window using emacs -nw

When I execute M-x shell-command, the aliases and functions from ~/.bashrc are not available, but give a "command not found".

I've googled quite a bit but all the posts I come across say, if I understand them correctly, that ~/.bashrc is the place where this should work (rather than ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile).

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Aliases are available only in interactive shell - a snapshot from bash man page:

Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt (see the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).