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?

  • CyclohexaneOPMEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    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

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      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/