How do I create a Bash alias?

Question

I\'m on OSX and I need to put something like this, alias blah=\"/usr/bin/blah\" in a config file but I don\'t know where the config file is.

Answer 1

It works for me on macOS Majave

You can do a few simple steps:

1) open terminal

2) sudo nano /.bash_profile

3) add your aliases, as example:

# some aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias eb="sudo nano ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile"
#docker aliases
alias d='docker'
alias dc='docker-compose'
alias dnax="docker rm $(docker ps -aq)"
#git aliases
alias g='git'
alias new="git checkout -b"
alias last="git log -2"
alias gg='git status'
alias lg="git log --pretty=format:'%h was %an, %ar, message: %s' --graph"
alias nah="git reset --hard && git clean -df"
alias squash="git rebase -i HEAD~2"

4) source /.bash_profile

Done. Use and enjoy!