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Fyr Zheng
Fyr Zheng

Reputation: 81

Mac: using .profile to customize the command

I want to customize the command line. (I am new to OS X world and I am trying to figure things out)

I did a ls -a and figured out that it does not have .bashrc or .profile, so I created the .profile by myself.

I just wanted to accomplished a simple task, but don't not know how to make it work.

In my .profile file, I have one simple line that looks like this

export abc = "ssh [email protected]"

basically, I can just type abc and it connects me to the tux with credential of abc. It did not work and when I tried 

echo abc

to debug it, it showed abc instead of showing "ssh [email protected]" so I guess it did not recognize my profile.

Any solution will be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 33

Answers (1)

Peder Klingenberg
Peder Klingenberg

Reputation: 41155

You want an alias. This is what you put in .profile:

alias abc="ssh [email protected]"

Additionally, to list defined aliases, use the command

alias

Upvotes: 2

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