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How to set an alias on a per-directory basis?

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – Suppose you have an alias go, but want it to do different things in different directories? In one directory it should run cmd1, but in another directory it should run cmd2 By the way, I have an aliases for switching to the above directories already, so is it possible to append the go alias assignment to the foo alias? alias "foo=cd /path/to/foo" Working in bash(?) on OSX. (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 10/26/2012 – Made popular on 10/26/2012

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I am attempting to put some alias definitions in .bashrc. Like this:

#Convienience aliases alias ll='ls -l' alias ldir='ls -p | grep "/"' #Temporary aliases alias mvFooLog='mv ~/Projects/Foo/Log.txt .'

The last alias will work for me, but there seems to be some subtlety which is corrupting the definition of the first two.

Most of my my aliases are of this form: alias p='pwd'

I want to alias git commit so that it does git commit -v

But trying to create an alias with a space gives an error:

$ alias 'git commit'='git commit -v' -bash: alias: `git commit': invalid alias name

In my /home/user/.bashrc file, I have those aliases to prevent mistakes:

alias rm='rm -i' alias cp='cp -i' alias mv='mv -i'

If I'm really sure of what I'm doing, I can overwrite rm and mv aliases using rm -f or mv -f, it will not ask me if I really want to overwrite files.

The problem, is that it doesn't work for the cp command, using cp -f will still ask me a question.

Is this normal?

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If I want to make a command like gsb that will expand to something like git show-branch -a | more or something even longer, what are the pros and cons of using a bash shell alias vs making a bash script and putting it on your PATH?

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I am on a Mac OS X 10.7.

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