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Setting up Bash Aliases

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This video shows you how to create your own custom shortcuts for various commands. We'll look at some common aliases and see how to add them to our command line environment. This is super handy for commands that you type in all the time and don't want to go through the tedium of typing the whole thing out every time. For example, we show how to automatically go to a particular directory with just one word (e.g. type "clients" and go to the /Users/add1sun/lullabot/clients directory immediately).

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jmolivas on January 4, 2013 - 8:20pm

Nice video, you can refresh the bash shell environment without closing the terminal using:
$source ~/.bash_profile

dbazuin on February 6, 2013 - 6:08am

Or even better make a alias for that :-)

Combining commands with && is also nice like: alias cl="clear && ls"

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