Define an alias in fish shell

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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

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I found the prior answers and comments to be needlessly incomplete and or confusing  The minimum that I needed to do was   Create    config fish config fish  This file can optionally be a softlink  Add to it the line alias myalias echo foo bar  Restart fish  To confirm the definition  try type myalias  Try the alias

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For posterity  fish aliases are just functions     alias foo  echo bar    type foo foo is a function with definition function foo     echo bar  argv   end   To remove it    unalias foo  usr bin unalias  line 2  unalias  foo  not found   functions -e foo   type foo type  Could not find    foo

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make a function in    config fish functions called mkalias fish and put this in   function mkalias --argument key value   echo alias  key  value   alias  key  value   funcsave  key end   and this will create aliases automatically

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To properly load functions from    config fish functions  You may set only ONE function inside file and name file the same as function name   add  fish extension    This way changing file contents reload functions in opened terminals  note some delay may occur  1-5s   That way if you edit either by commandline  function name  function content  end   then  funcsave name   you have user defined functions in console and custom made in the same order

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fish starts by executing commands in    config fish config fish  You can create it if it does not exist      vim    config fish config fish   and save it with  wq  step1  make configuration file  like  bashrc      config fish   step2  just write your alias like this      alias rm  rm -i

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This is how I define a new function foo  run it  and save it persistently   sthorne pearl  gt  function foo                     echo  foo was here                  end sthorne pearl  gt  foo foo was here sthorne pearl  gt  funcsave foo

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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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if there is not config fish in    config fish   make it  there you can write your function  function name  command  end

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Save your files as    config fish functions  some function name  fish and they should get autoloaded when you start fish

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If you add an abbr instead of an alias you ll get better auto-complete  In fish abbr more closely matches the behavior of a bash alias   abbr -a gco git checkout   Will -add a new abbreviation gco that expands to git checkout   Here s a video demo of the resulting auto-complete features

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