The best way to quickly generate bash aliases.
Bash Aliases are easily one of my favourite parts of bash, but they're a little bit of a hassle to set up.
That's where aliasplease comes in.
"aliasplease", followed by the name of your command, then the command you want to alias.
For example:
aliasplease hello echo "world"
If you entered the command "hello", the command "echo "world"" would run.
Some Notes:
- If you want to pass arguments into the alias, you can use $@, or $1, $2, etc (you must use the backslash so it's interpreted as text and not as part of the command!)
- If you want to have multiple lines inside your function, make sure you use semicolons!!
It's super easy to install aliasplease. I mean somebody's probably written this code before, it's only like three lines.
Open a new Terminal window, and enter the command nano ~/.bash_profile.
Your .bash_profile probably has stuff in it already, but if it's blank, that's fine!
We'll be creating a new .bash_profile for you in that case.
Just go into the bash_profile file in this repo and copy and paste the code into your own bash_profile.
It's as simple as that.
If so, follow all the same instructions, replacing '.bash_profile' with '.zshrc'!
The following is a collection of my favourite/most useful aliases.
it's 10 characters too long really, isn't it.
aliasplease bi brew install \$@
When you do a screen recording it is auto exported as mov, which is just bloody annoying. So in order to actually make it useful (and by that I mean uploadable) on sites like Twitter, use ffmpeg to convert it easily.
aliasplease tomp4 ffmpeg -i \$@
makes life easier really
aliasplease gs git status