What’s in a name?
Anything your nerdy heart desires!
I love using my keyboard as much as possible. Hotkeys, shortcuts, you name it, but I also avoid typing any more than I need to. I have aliases for just about every command I run regularly. It’s about efficiency and ease of use. I also think aliases are easier for muscle memory.
Typing something like gst is much easier and faster for my fingers to learn and repeat than git status.
How do you make a bash alias?
They start with the alias command followed by the string you want to type, then the command you want to execute when you type that string.
To create one, add a line to your .bashrc or .zshrc file.
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alias be="bundle exec"
Then source that file to load the alias into your current bash session.
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source ~/.zshrc
Since I edit that file a ton… I have an alias to do so!
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zshconfig='sudo nvim ~/.zshrc'
What are my bash aliases?
To list all of your existing aliases, just run alias.
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$ alias
=> ...
g='git'
ga='git add'
gaa='git add --all'
gba='git branch -a'
rkdc='rake db:create'
rkdd='rake db:drop'
rkdm='rake db:migrate'
rs='rails server'
...
What does that do again?
If you ever wanna know what a particular alias is gonna do, run alias {name_of_alias}.
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$ alias keti
=> keti='kubectl exec -t -i'