How to define an alias in fish shell?

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armandino picture armandino · May 4, 2010 · Viewed 130.3k times · Source

I would like to define some aliases in fish. Apparently it should be possible to define them in 

~/.config/fish/functions

but they don't get auto loaded when I restart the shell. Any ideas?

Answer

Bozhidar Batsov picture Bozhidar Batsov · May 4, 2010

Just use alias. Here's a basic example:

# Define alias in shell
alias rmi "rm -i"

# Define alias in config file
alias rmi="rm -i"

# This is equivalent to entering the following function:
function rmi
    rm -i $argv
end

# Then, to save it across terminal sessions:
funcsave rmi

This last command creates the file ~/.config/fish/functions/rmi.fish.

Interested people might like to find out more about fish aliases in the official manual.

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