how to run alias using bash -c from IDEA I'm trying to run a program defined in an alias (and the alias is defined in a source file)

alias myapp="/somepath/app -arg1 -arg2"


Then I go to IDEA and create an External Tool

Program: Bash
Arguments: -c "source /filewithalias.sh &amp;&amp; myapp" 


Then when I run, I get the following message:

bash: myapp: command not found


EDIT:

I already tried prepending

shopt -s expand_aliases


To the command string but the result is still the same
The reason of your failure is that myapp is evaluated by bash at the time of the line evaluation, i.e. before its definition.
I suggest you to avoid aliases for this purpose (I can't find any easy method with aliases).

Here is a simple method.
If you don't have already one, create a personnal directory for all your
binaries and shell scripts:

$ mkdir ~/bin


Add this new directory within your shell standard PATH:

PATH=${PATH}:~/bin
export PATH


Create a new shell script to fire your application with all the
required arguments:

$ cd ~/bin
$ cat &gt;myapp.sh &lt;&lt;eof
/somepath/app -arg1 -arg2
eof
$ make myapp


check that it is working from your actual environment:

$ myapp


Then call it from IDEA:

Program: myapp


check that it is working from within IDEA.