I would like to customize a Mac terminal command.

For example, regardless the directory I am in, whenever I type 'task1' on command prompt and then enter, it will automatically execute the terminal commands that wrote in a .sh file saved at a location.

I am overwhelmed, I can only run the .sh file by providing its location, which is longer than a 'task1' command.

CodePudding user response：

Put the script in your PATH. You can find a suitable location with echo $PATH, and put the script in one of those directories. If none of them look good to you, you can make a new directory somewhere, for example $HOME/bin, put the script there, and add PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" to your .bash_profile or .zprofile, depending on what shell you're using. If you search on StackOverflow for questions related to how PATH works you'll find a lot of good info.

CodePudding user response：

Answer generated with openAI chatGPT:

To customize a Mac terminal command, you can create an alias for the command that you want to use. An alias is a shortcut for a longer command or series of commands, and it can be defined in your terminal configuration file. To create an alias for a command, you will need to edit your terminal configuration file, which is typically located at ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc. To edit this file, you can use a text editor, such as Nano or Vim.

Once you have opened your terminal configuration file in a text editor, you can add an alias by using the alias command followed by the desired shortcut and the full command or series of commands that you want to execute. For example, to create an alias for a shell script located at /path/to/script.sh, you could add the following line to your terminal configuration file:

alias task1='/path/to/script.sh'

After you have saved and closed your terminal configuration file, you can use the source command to reload the file and apply your changes. For example:

source ~/.bash_profile

Once you have reloaded your terminal configuration file, you can use the task1 command to run the script.sh script, regardless of the directory you are in. For example:

$ task1

This will execute the commands in the script.sh script as if you had typed them out manually on the command line. Note that you may need to adjust the alias command and the source command depending on the specific details of your terminal configuration and the location of your script. Additionally, you can use this same approach to create aliases for any other commands that you want to use frequently in your terminal.