Tuesday, April 3, 2012

How-to Make/Create Terminal/Command Line Alias Mac Linux

The Terminal Command Aliases are Very Useful to Register the Long, Repeated or Complicate Commands.

They are meant to Quick Executing Commands by simply Calling a synthetic Label or Name.

So every time you "call" the Alias Name on a Terminal window your action will Correspond to the Sequence of Commands Linked to the Label.
  • The User Aliases are Defined inside the ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.shrc, ~/.cshrc.
  • The System Aliases instead are Define into the /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc Files.

Generally the definition of an Alias can be Resumed with:

$ alias ALIASNAME="COMMAND'S SEQUENCE"

And it execution with:

$ ALIASNAME

will Correspond to execute:

$ COMMAND'S SEQUENCE

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    Examples:

  1. $ alias htdocs="cd /opt/local/apache2/htdocs"

    So that executing in Terminal our custom "htdocs" command will Correspond to:
    $ cd /opt/local/apache2/htdocs
  2. 2)
    $ alias mate="/Users/daveall/bin/mate"

    So our defined command "mate" will be a shortcut than will bring to open the Textmate application.
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To Use an Alias Before Rebooting the Configuration File Need to be Reloaded... To Activate a Command Alias you Need to Load the Source File with:
source </path/To/bashConfigFile>
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