Creating Alias

For the second time I had to reconfigure my work environment from ground up. Literally resetting my mac to factory settings. And every time I had to do a little bit of research to remind myself how to get my favorite git alias working again. So I decided to do a little tutorial on it, after spending sometime getting it setup. (for myself)

• Launch your Terminal. I use Quicksilver, so can either use Ctr + Space + type<Iterm> or the following hotkey/trigger Ctr + Option + Cmd + t

• "cd ~/" to your home directory.

• The .bash_profile file lives in your home directory, make sure you have it by entering ls -la or la(works for me). - it should look similar to this.

• In case you don’t have .bash_profile file, type nano .bash_profile.

• In nano .bash_profile

• You should see something similar to this (mind my aliases)

• After the file is created and you see that on your screen, you are ready to enter some aliases.

• alias alias_name="command_to_run

• Make sure you have no space between the equal sign.

• When you’re done Ctr + o will write the changes to the file.

• Ctr + x will exit you out of nano.

• In order for the changes to take effect run source ~/.bash_profile.

All done.