dcat23 / aliascli

Alias CLI

Usage

To use Alias CLI, you need to have the alias_cli script and the alias_commands file in the same directory.

The alias_commands file contains the list of aliases that you want to manage with aliascli. Each alias should be defined as follows:

alias alias_name='command'

To manage aliases with Alias CLI, simply run the al command followed by the appropriate arguments.

al [-h] [<alias> <command>] [-v <alias>] [-d <alias>]

Here is a brief description of the available options:

• -h: Show the help page.

• -o: Opens the alias_commands file for editing.

• <alias>: If provided with a <command>, create or update an alias. If no <command> is provided, list all aliases or list aliases that contain <alias>.

• -v <alias>: View the command for a specific alias.

• -d <alias>: Delete an alias.

For example, to create a new alias called "cm" that runs the "git commit -md" command, you would run the following command:

al cm "git commit -m"

NOTE: Be sure to include quotations around the command

To view the command associated with the "cm" alias, you would run:

al -v cm
# cm -> alias cm="git commit -m"

To delete alias "cm", you would run:

al -d cm

Example:

al cl "git clone"
# immediately available
cl https://github.com/dcat23/aliascli.git

For more information about the available commands, run al -h. This will display a help

Adding to Your Shell Configuration

To make the al function available in every new terminal window, you can add the following command to your shell configuration file:

source "$HOME/aliascli/alias_cli"

Replace "$HOME/aliascli/" with the actual path to the aliascli folder on your system.

Once you've added this line to your shell configuration file, the al function will be loaded into your terminal.

To make the al function available in each new terminal from any directory, you can add source "$HOME/aliascli/alias_cli" command to your shell configuration file (~/.bashrc for Bash or ~/.zshrc for Zsh):

Temporary Shell Variables

• echo $ALIAS_CLI_FILE: location of cli
• echo $ALIAS_COMMANDS_FILE: location of aliases
• echo $EXISTING_COMMAND: most recently updated alias
• echo $DELETED_COMMAND: most recently deleted alias
• ./alias_commands.bak: backup before recent changes

License

Alias CLI is licensed under the MIT License.