Love your aliases again! ๐ฅธ
A cross-shell (POSIX-compliant) alias manager for bash
, zsh
, and fish
aliasman gc 'git commit -m'
An alias is just shorthand for a shell function.
Take a long command like this:
git commit -m "feat: new feature"
And turn it into a short command, like this:
gc "feat: new feature"
(that would be aliasman gc 'git commit -m'
)
Mac, Linux via webi (https://webinstall.dev/aliasman):
curl -sS https://webi.sh/aliasman | sh
source ~/.config/envman/PATH.env
GitHub Releases:
# pick version
my_version="v1.0.0"
# download and unpack
curl -o "aliasman-${my_version}.tar.gz" \
-fL "https://github.com/BeyondCodeBootcamp/aliasman/archive/refs/tags/${my_version}.tar.gz"
tar xvf "aliasman-${my_version}.tar.gz"
# install to somewhere in your PATH
mkdir -p ~/bin
mv ./aliasman-*/aliasman ~/bin/
USAGE
# Set alias
aliasman [--] <aliasname> <command> [flags, opts, args, pipes, etc]
# Check alias
aliasman [--] <aliasname>
# Delete alias
aliasman -d [--] <aliasname>
aliasman help
aliasman version
EXAMPLES
aliasman curl curlie
aliasman ls lsd -F
aliasman la lsd -AF
aliasman ll lsd -lAhF
aliasman tree lsd -F --tree
aliasman xrnd xxd -l24 -ps /dev/urandom
FILES
~/.bashrc
~/.config/envman/alias.env
~/.config/envman/load.sh
~/.config/envman/load.fish
~/.config/fish/config.fish
~/.profile
~/.zshrc
NOTES
You may use single quotes around the alias definition, like so:
# generate 24 random bytes, url-safe base64-encoded
aliasman rnd 'xxd -l24 -ps /dev/urandom |
xxd -r -ps |
base64 |
tr -d = |
tr + - |
tr / _'
However, the use of single quotes as part of flags, options, and arguments
is not yet supported. Neither are newlines.
- What if you could quickly create a command,
ll
,
that does the work ofls -lAhF
!? - Set an alias to do just that!
aliasman ll 'ls -lAhF'
- Reload your alias config (or open a new terminal)
source ~/.config/envman/alias.env
- Use it!
ll
drwxr-xr-x aj wheel 416 B Thu Feb 9 02:08:39 2023 ๐ .git/ .rwxr-xr-x aj staff 6.2 KB Thu Feb 9 01:36:30 2023 ๐ป aliasman* .rw-r--r-- aj wheel 16 KB Wed Feb 8 21:51:06 2023 ๐ LICENSE .rw-r--r-- aj wheel 1.4 KB Thu Feb 9 01:47:13 2023 ๐ README.md
Use aliases to make other tools you find around webi even more convenient โก๏ธ (and powerful ๐ช).
aliasman curl 'curlie'
aliasman diffy 'diff -y --suppress-common-lines'
aliasman gc 'git commit -m'
aliasman gri 'git rebase -i'
aliasman la 'lsd -AF'
aliasman ll 'lsd -lAhF'
aliasman ls 'lsd -F'
aliasman rgi 'rg -i'
aliasman tree 'lsd -F --tree --group-dirs=last'
# random password generator
aliasman rnd 'xxd -l24 -ps /dev/urandom'