After looking around for how to make an alias for Mac OS X's terminal/shell I ended up cobbling together my solution from a variety of different (mostly unixy-linuxy) places. So in the name of good documentation, here is the magic formula for the next time I need to set up an alias for happier command line hacking:
- First we edit/create a profile.
vi ~/.profile
- Add your alias like so to the file:
alias aliasname='mycommand /path/path'
(notice no space between equal sign and ') - Save your changes and close the file
- Load/reload your profile with:
. ~/.profile
- If you are using root/sudo you will need to use
sudo -i
in order to load the profile upon login (more info about this here). - Done.