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noobmaster69
noobmaster69

Reputation: 3115

ZSH aliases not found

When I open my ~/.zshrc file and add alias homestead=“cd ~/Homestead”, I expect to be able to type homestead and be taken to the Homestead folder.

Instead I get the following error:

zsh: command not found: “cd

Even when I use single quotes, i.e. alias homestead='cd ~/Homestead' and run source ~/.zshrc I get the same error.

UPDATE: Also, when I run which homestead I get homestead: aliased to "cd

How can I fix this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4244

Answers (5)

krulik
krulik

Reputation: 1106

Just saying that for me what fixed it was an error in the first alias in my list that had a question mark in it.

Just switched to Mac OS Catalina and ~/.bashrc to ~/.zshrc and I guess zsh doesn't support question marks.

Maybe it'll help someone coming here from Google search like I did.

Upvotes: 0

Colliot
Colliot

Reputation: 1551

Maybe your locale settings is auto correcting a double quote " into a localized double quote “ as you posted. Since this is not recognized as a valid quote in shell, a simple white-space would break the string. So the actual alias is “cd.

As to why alias homestead='cd ~/Homestead' does not work, it seems you changed the alias in ~/.zshrc. From the which homestead result, it can be seen that alias homestead='cd ~/Homestead' does not really work. Maybe there is another line of alias homestead=“cd ~/Homestead” hidden in .zshrc after it.

Upvotes: 0

noobmaster69
noobmaster69

Reputation: 3115

The answer was to open ~/.zshrc in Sublime Text as opposed to TextEdit and to check that the " were coming up as 042 in an octal dump.

Upvotes: 2

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 532333

You don't need to define this alias at all in zsh. Add the following to your .zshrc:

setopt autocd
cdpath+=(~)

The first allows you to treat a directory name as a command, which implicitly sets the working directory of the current shell to the named directory. The second specifies that if the current directory doesn't have a directory whose name is used with cd (or by itself with autocd set), then try to find it in a directory named in the cdpath parameter.

With these two, simply typing Homestead will first try to run a command named Homestead; failing that, it tries to cd to ./Homestead, and failing that, will finally succeed in cding to ~/Homestead.

Upvotes: 1

Jens
Jens

Reputation: 72756

The double quotes must be ASCII, not Unicode outside the ASCII range. Load the file in your editor, disable any automatic mangling of single quotes and double quotes. Then replace the funny quotes with ASCII quotes " (code decimal 34, hex 22, octal 042). Or type the command at a prompt, then cut & paste it in your editor. If all else fails, add the alias at the end of your .zshrc with

printf 'alias homestead="cd ~/homestead"' >> ~/.zshrc

Verify the result with octal dump,

od -bc .zshrc

The number above the quotes should appear as 042.

Upvotes: 0

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