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I've been trying to set up some Drush aliases. However, when I try to run any command, it will echo the contents of all aliases files, and drush sa simply returns the contents of those files twice, and then the @none, @self and @default aliases (since I'm in the folder of a Drupal installation). When trying to run any command with an alias, e.g. drush @local status, I once again get a dump of those files, and finally a Could not find the alias @local error.

I've tried putting the aliases in ~/.drush/aliases.drushrc.php and in ~/.drush/local.aliases.drushrc.php. In the latter case, I tried two formats:

$aliases['local'] = array(
    'root' => '/home/user/subdomain/public_html',
    'uri' => 'subdomain.domain.com'
);

and

@code
    $options['uri'] = 'subdomain.domain.com';
    $options['root'] = '/home/user/subdomain/public_html';
@endcode

both without any different effect, apart from different contents being dumped. No other errors are thrown, it seems. I've also done a drush cache-clear all after each attempt.

Any thoughts as to what might cause this?

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Your error was quite simple; you forgot to put <?php at the top of your alias file.

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    Oh man. I simultaneously hope and really don't hope that is the case, but it makes a lot of sense. Will test in an hour or 2...
    – Erik S
    Nov 28, 2015 at 21:18
  • Wow! None of the tutorials that I read about the aliases file mentioned the need for the opening <?php tag but I guess that makes sense. THANK YOU.
    – oranges13
    Jun 2, 2016 at 21:29

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