Set An Alias

Aliases are user defined custom commands which can save lot of our time typing long commands. List of defined aliases on profile can be checked by simply executing the following command in Terminal

alias

Creating permanent aliases¶

To keep aliases active between sessions, we can save them in our user’s shell configuration profile file. This can be, - Bash : ~/.bashrc - Zsh : ~/.zshrc

Open the config file for the shell in Vim by executing,

vim .zshrc

Suppose we frequently edit our i3 config file and want to set an alias for it, we can put the following line in our config file,

alias i3edit="vim ~/.config/i3/config"

One can use one's preffered text editor in place of vim in the above command. Next we simply source the config file for the change to take effect.

source .zshrc