To make aliases of macOS Unix commands in your bash or zsh shell on macOS and earlier versions, it is done via your .bash_profile or .zsh file which lives in your home account directory, if the file does not already exist, just create one.
Dec 29, 2019 How to Open Applications Using Terminal on Mac. Apple's Terminal provides you with a UNIX command line inside the OS X environment. You can enter the open command here to open any application, or to open a file with the application of your.
As of macOS 10.6 Catalina, Apple has made the zsh shell the default shell, previously it was the bash shell.
May 18, 2012 Open the program's folder and click once on the program icon to highlight it. Press the 'Command' and 'M' keys simultaneously, and the shortcut/alias will be created beside the original. Drag the shortcut from that folder onto the desktop. The 'Make Alias' command is also listed under the File Menu, if you'd prefer to use that method instead. Under Files and Folders section, enable New Terminal at Folder and/or New Terminal Tab at Folder and assign a shortcut key to it. Option 2: If you want the shortcut key to work anywhere, create a new Service using Automator, then go to the Keyboard Shortcut to assign a shortcut key to it. Known limitation: not work from the desktop.
Launch Terminal from the /Application/Utilities folder
Go to your home directory by just entering cd followed by the ‘return’ key to enter the command:
List your home directory contents including invisible files to see if the file already exists, use:
Create the .bash_profile or .zsh file using the command line program called ‘nano’ if it doesn’t exist:
When the .bash_profile or .zsh file is created you are ready to enter your alias commands. So here I am using the alias ‘l’ to alias the command ‘ls -lah’
In nano ‘control+o’ to write the file out and ‘control+x’ to exit the file.
Mac Terminal Shortcut Key
Refresh the shell environment by entering the command below:
Or..
That’s it, now the alias will take effect.
To add other aliases just start a new line, and apply the same formatting.
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Hello,
If someone would be kind enough to help me out with creating a shortcut terminal command that would be great. I was messing around with the Android SDK just for fun and was wondering how you can get it to launch a specific avd, so from Terminal I would type
And it would open, how would you create a shortcut on the desktop to do this so I can just double click and it will open? In windows I would just modify the target and add the -avd or create a batch file, but not sure how to do this in OSX.