How can I set an alias in the .bashrc of my Docker image

Question

For example: 'alias python=/home/user/python3.6' Is something I might want to put into my bashrc How do I set this in a Dockerfile I know of the ENV command which sets path variable, is it possible to do similar for setting an alias?

Answer 1

simply use RUN to add an alias to bash_profile.

FROM ubuntu
MAINTAINER Mojtaba Yeganeh

RUN echo "alias python=/home/user/python3.6" >> ~/.bash_profile