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4 Simple Steps For Custom Bash Commands

Molly Nemerever on April 08, 2019

The terminal isn’t the most user friendly - sensitive to errors, challenging to read, and it requires a lot of typing! I frequently find myself ty...
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jericomanapsal •

Great post! Aliases really makes things easy and short. In addition, if you are using bash, you can put your aliases on ~/.bashrc. That way, you won't have to execute ~/.custom_bash_commands for every session.

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Scott Eppler •

I have my aliases in one dotfile, functions in another, then I source both in my .bashrc

I like keeping them separate for cleanliness and testing while also having them sourced in every session automatically.

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Molly Nemerever •

That's awesome organization! I think as I gain experience and discover which functions I'll want as shortcuts I'll restructure how I've saved these functions.

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Drawcard •

Or better yet ask .bashrc to reference ~/.custom_bash_commands at login:

# Put this in your .bashrc file
source ~/.custom_bash_commands
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Deni •

.bash_profile and .bashrc are two semantically different files. Both can be found on both linux and osx (which is also a linux os because it has linux kernel).

Difference between .bash_profile and .bashrc is explained here: medium.com/@kingnand.90/what-is-th...

I recommend revising the text accordingly.

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Artiya •

My .inputrc

## arrow up
"\e[A":history-search-backward
## arrow down
"\e[B":history-search-forward
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archagy •

here a gist alias
gist.github.com/hightemp/5071909

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Calvin Barajas •

Thank you so much, this is awesome!

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Pushkar Anand •

I had recently created a simple tool that allows me to simply add aliases without editing .bashrc files every time. github.com/pushkar-anand/bashAlias...

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Molly Nemerever •

I didn't know this! Thank you for sharing!