Archived

This repository is not maintained anymore and will not be updated to Elementary OS 6.0. You have my blessing to create a fork and update the application to post publish it in Elementary 6.0 under your own name.

Alias

Simplify your commands

alias for elementary OS

A tool to manage your bash aliases.

Installation

First you will need to install elementary SDK

sudo apt install elementary-sdk

Dependencies

These dependencies must be present before building

• valac
• gtk+-3.0
• granite

You can install these on a Ubuntu-based system by executing this command:

sudo apt install valac libgtk-3-dev libgranite-dev

Building

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

Installing

sudo ninja install

Recompile the schema after installation

sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Update .pot file

Call the following command from the build folder:

ninja com.github.bartzaalberg.alias-pot

FAQ

Does the application work with ZSH?

ZSH is not supported out of the box. It is however possible to use the application with ZSH if you add the following lines to your .zshrc file.

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    source ~/.bash_aliases
fi;