Why aliases in a non-interactive Bash shell do not work

Question

I am trying to use aliases in a non-interactive bash shell. I have defined my aliases in ~/.bashrc and I have set the variable BASH_ENV=~/startUpFile

Answer 1

I had similar issue, in the end, I found out that ~/.bashrc was all I needed.

However, in Ubuntu, I had to comment the line that stops processing ~/.bashrc :

If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return