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Michael Pankov
Michael Pankov

Reputation: 3701

How to make a path-agnostic alias for zsh?

I'm using hsenv. To activate it I need to do this:

cd ~/projects/foo
hsenv
source .hsenv_foo/bin/activate

I'm looking for a way to replace third command with an alias. The problem is there's a path-dependent component in the path to activate script.

How can I replace the foo in .hsenv_foo by the name of actual directory that I'm currently in?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 196

Answers (1)

simont
simont

Reputation: 72547

I'm not sure how to do it in an alias, but you can wrap it in a function:

function my-hsenv { 
    # If we want the full path
     # foo=`pwd`;
    # If we want only the name of the current dir
    foo=$(basename $(pwd))
    source .hsenv_${foo}/bin/activate
}

Then run my-hsenv:

$ my-hsenv
my-hsenv:source:5: no such file or directory: .hsenv_tmp/bin/activate

But you get the idea.

Upvotes: 2

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