If you spend a lot of time in the terminal you’ll find that you write some commands very often. It is a good idea to add some shortcuts to some commands so that you can do less typing and be more efficient in your command line interface (cli). Using a .bashrc you can set some aliases for commands to save yourself some time. .bashrc is a that Bash runs whenver it is started interactively. If you have some aliases in your bashrc file they’ll be available to you to use in your cli. The first thing you’ll want to do is to make sure your .bashrc file is getting loaded. If you’re running a mac, it is quite possible that you don’t have a .bashrc file, but have a .bash_profile file which gets loaded and is a login shell. Your bash_profile should have a line like this: shell script [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc; fi if If you don’t have that line be sure to add it. That way you can consolidate all your commands into your .bashrc file. Now you can add some handy aliases to your .bashrc file: alias grep= alias c= alias back= alias ..= alias ...= alias reload= # start a branch alias = # remove all the annoying .DS_Store files alias cleanup= # colorize grep output 'grep --color=auto -n' 'clear' 'cd -' 'cd ..' 'cd ../../' 'source .bash_profile' new new 'git checkout -b' "find . -type f -name '*.DS_Store' -ls -delete" I highly recommend you check out and also our post . Read more about it Oh My Zsh Terminal History Auto Suggestions As You Type With Oh My Zsh here
