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Making a separate aliases file in .bash_profile

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thebloke

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Making a separate aliases file in .bash_profile

After installing Mac OS High Sierra totally clean I'm taking some time to set up my work enviroment and working with alias going to be totally imperative to gain time working then let's do it with clean methods.

You have to edit .bash_profile and adding the following lines:

if [ -f ~/.aliases ]; then
    . ~/.aliases
fi

Then all you have to do is create a .aliases file in your user directory ~ and add your aliases there.

$ touch ~/.aliases

After that remember refresh the bash shell environment:

$ source .bash_profile

Contents of my ~/.bash_aliases file:

# - [ LS ] -

    alias ll='ls -la'

# - [ Git ] -

    alias gl="git log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"

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