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I'm trying to copy using the command provided in here. That is,

alias | sed -E "s/^alias ([^=]+)='(.*)'$/alias \1 \2 \$*/g; s/'\\\''/'/g;" >~/.emacs.d/eshell/alias

This worked with Bash, I was using Emacs-Starter-Kit; but not working with Zsh -- not working means it copied things but to no effect.

[As a side note]

It seems like, I don't have few Eshell default variables i.e. eshell-read-aliases-list, and eshell-aliases-file. So, I even don't know where should my Eshell alias file reside.

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Got it working after setting

(setq eshell-directory-name (expand-file-name "./" (expand-file-name "eshell" prelude-personal-dir)))

in post.el (my personal .el file for post-processing) under prelude/personal

... and modified the given bash command to

alias | awk '{print "alias "$0}' | sed -E "s/^alias ([^=]+)='(.*)'$/alias \1 \2 \$*/g; s/'\\\''/'/g;" > ~/.emacs.d/personal/eshell/alias

... and appended that to .zshrc.

Found that alias command, in zsh, prints aliases without prefix alias<space>, unlike bash. Therefore this part 

| awk '{print "alias "$0}'
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