assigning aliases in .bashrc via echo '...' >> .bashrc

Question

running cat .bashrc gives me these two lines at the end:

alias remove='rm -i'
alias chamber='ls -a -i -l'

when I run

remove

followed by a file name I get a successful removal with confirmation prompt. when I run

chamber

I get

chamber: command not found

I used the echo convention to enter both

echo 'alias chamber='ls -a -i -l'' >> .bashrc

When I inspected in nano the inside quotes didn't appear so I entered them manually.

1. How do I get the command to register?
2. How do I ensure the inside quotes write to .bashrc?

Answer 1

The echo statement seem not correct. Can you try with: echo 'alias chamber="ls -a -i -l"' >> .bashrc and apply new changes by source .bashrc