Overview

This post will be for me to keep track of customizations to my .bashrc file for easy reference.

The rc stands for “run commands”.

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.bash_aliases

To keep things modular, I am going to to use the .bash_aliases file. This file will contain the aliases, but be referenced in the .bashrc file.

Add the following block to the .bashrc file.

# User-specific aliases
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    . ~/.bash_aliases
fi

Now, add in any aliases that might be useful.

echo 'alias ll="ls -lash"' >> ~/.bash_aliases

When this is done, either log out and log back in, or just source the file.

source ~/.bashrc

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