hello friends,
I am looking for a way to do what I described in the title. When running command command
, I dont want to have to type SOME_ENV_VAR=value command
every time, especially if there are multiple.
I am sure youre immediately thinking aliases. My issue with aliases is that if I do this for several programs, my .bashrc will get large and messy quickly. I would prefer a way to separate those by program or application, rather than put them all in one file.
Is there a clean way to do this?
You could source an
aliases.sh
file on your .bashrc where you define your aliases, so that they don’t fill up your bashrc.For example, in your bashrc:
source ~/.aliases.sh
This way you could also create a file with aliases per program.
FYI:
$HOME/.bash_aliases
is standard and most distros’.bashrc
will source that file by default.Most Debian based distros, actually.
And at least arch. Probably others.
That’s a good idea, but it only makes the problem a little better. I still wouldn’t want one large aliases.sh file with environment variables for every application I customized. Would rather have them separate somehow without gobbling up a file
You can source other files inside
aliases.sh
or as @treadful noted.bash_aliases
.bash_aliases
:source .aliases/program_x.sh
source .aliases/program_y.sh
This way you can have a file with aliases for each application or group of applications.
But it would be helpful if you provided more information on what you really want to do. Read https://xyproblem.info/