Creating Aliases on a Mac

May 19, 2016

Creating Aliases on a Mac is an easy thing to do & can save a lot of time. When working in Terminal or another command line app, you may want to set up an alias to make your workflows easier. {: .first-paragraph}

To do this you’ll want to set up a .bash_profile:

Run vi ~/.bash_profile in your command line app of choice, or [text editor of choice] ~/.bash_profile
This will open up your bash profile in vi or your text editor to be edited

If you’d like to use a text editor but don’t have one that opens instead of vi checkout this post

Here’s a look at part of my .bash_profile:


# -------
# mySQL
# -------
export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH

# -------
# host setups
# -------
alias hosts="sublime /etc/hosts"
alias vhosts="sublime /etc/apache2/vhosts"