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Add Aliases to Bash Terminal from inside of VSC


Is there a way to add aliases to the bash terminal when using it from within Visual Studio Code?


Solution

  • I found the answer here https://gist.github.com/wzup/36b5159d8c580b827384

    Take as an inspiration

    # create a file C:\Users\[user]\.bashrc
    # add this content
    # add your onw aliases or changes these ones as you like
    # to make a dot (.bashrs) file in windows, create a file ".bashrs." (without extention) and save. windows will save it as ".bashrc"
    
    alias ls='ls -alh'
    alias cdnginx='cd /c/nginx && ls'
    alias cdmcga='cd /c/Users/[user]/sbox/node/mcga && ls'
    alias cdfood9='cd /c/Users/[user]/sbox/node/food9 && ls'
    alias cdmysql='cd /c/nginx/mysql/bin && ls'
    alias cdsbox='cd /c/Users/[user]/sbox && ls'
    alias cdangular='cd /c/Users/[user]/sbox/angularjs && ls'
    alias cdmongobin='cd "/c/Program Files/MongoDB/Server/3.0/bin" && ls'
    alias cdmongodata='cd /c/mongodb/data/db && ls'
    alias sbrc='cd ~ && source .bashrc'
    alias mydocs='cd ~/Documents'