Creating Bash Aliases

Before today I’d heard about bash aliases, and how they allow one to create custom shortcuts for bash commands. Today I made my first alias and added it to my ~./bash_profile file so the alias will persist across bash sessions.

1. Open file in text editor: vi ~/.bash_profile

2. Press i to enter ‘insert’ mode

3. Add new alias # Create & activate venv, upgrade pip & setuptools alias venv="python3 -m venv .env --copies && . .env/bin/activate && pip install --upgrade pip setuptools > /dev/null"

4. Press ‘:wq’ to save & quit ~/.bash_profile

5. Check file content to make sure changes saved correctly cat ~/.bash_profile