An alias for your aliases

Tiny helper for the lazy dev

ok, first some context:

I set out to learn react from this video tutorial. The first step was to create a new directory to put the new code in.

I navigated to my code directory using my good old go2code alias, and created a new folder called learn_react. Staying true to character my next instinct was to create an alias called go2react so that I can reduce my nav friction; lol

That being said, I feel lazy every time I want to create a new alias.

I kind of wished that there was something as simple as createalias aliasname command that I could use.

So that’s what I did.

Here’s how you can set it up too.

Assumptions:

you know your way around the terminal, you use oh-my-zsh and do not wish to clutter your .zshrc file with individual aliases :P

If you use bash, feel free to modify the script.

Step 1:

Create a new file called .aliases if you don’t already have one

$ cd

$ touch ~/.aliases

Step 2:

Create a new file called .helper to keep all your helper functions

$ touch ~/.helper

Step 3:

Note: GPT wrote the function

Open the .helper file in your editor of choice and add the following code.

Code looks ugly on Substack. Here’s the link to gist with the code.

Step 4:

Source your .aliases and .helper files in your .zshrc file. I added this as the first two lines in the file.

# Load personal helper functions

source $HOME/.helper

#Load aliases

source $HOME/.aliases

Step 5:

If you already have a terminal open, then source your .zshrc file, or just open a new terminal window and start using the alias.

Here’s how I used it

$ source ~/.zshrc

$ makealias “go2react” “cd folder/path”

that’s all folks

i wanted an image for my post

btw, did you know that Oberyn Martell from GoT is Pedro Pascal? I had no idea, TIL.

Fin.