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Bash Function for adding new aliases
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| #add alias | |
| function newalias() { | |
| echo alias $1=\"$2\" >> ~/.aliases | |
| source ~/.bash_profile | |
| } |
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I was sick of opening vim to add an alias, closing and then reloading .bash_profile so here is a nice function that does it for you.
If you don't store you aliases in a separate file (Which I recommend doing) then be sure to change .aliases to .bash_profile.
Function is called like so:
newalias 'test' 'echo test'