My alias isn't working anymore, not sure what happened

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I created an alias so that when I type la it does ls -la.

When I fire up terminal on my Mac, I get:

-bash: alias: la: not found
-bash: alias: =ls -la: not found

Why would this be?

My .bash_profile looks like:

alias la ='ls -la'

James T · Answer 1 · 2010-07-02 04:20:45Z

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I think it needs to be:

alias la='ls -la'

answered Jul 2 '10 at 4:20

James T
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	That's right, no spaces around the equal sign. – Dennis Williamson Jul 2 '10 at 9:56
	I had spaces, not sure how they got there? strange! – user27449 Jul 2 '10 at 14:13

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