Comments on: Terminal Alias Shortcuts

By: datico

datico — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:30:06 +0000

An alternative to using .profile is to just type tcsh in terminal to switch to a shell which supports the “alias” command used in this article.

By: Celios

Celios — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:44:26 +0000

Thanks alot Angela, that was my main problem, what file should I edit to be able to save these aliases.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:58:16 +0000

If you use the bash as I do you have to do it a bit different. Create a file called .profile in your user home (e.g. /Users/YourUserName/.profile).
Inside that .profile file you can define your aliases as follows:
alias lsall=’ls -lha’
alias text=’touch text.txt’
alias desktop=’cd ~/Desktop’
etc.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:52:27 +0000

Get exactly the same problem as Edi.

By: Yëco

Yëco — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:32:43 +0000

Edi, try:

alias tx=’open /Applications/TextEdit.app/’

By: Edi

Edi — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:46:40 +0000

I tried to run exactly the same command line in MacBook Aluminium 2008 running Mac OS 10.5 but…

error message:

-bash: alias: tx: not found
-bash: alias: open /Applications/TextEdit.app/: not found