Persistent aliases for zsh and bash without having to use an editor.

Inspired by this stack exchange question.

Use one of the following:

git clone https://github.com/talwrii/aliasutil ~/aliasutil
echo source ~/aliasutil/aliasutil.sh >> ~/.bashrc

git clone https://github.com/talwrii/aliasutil ~/aliasutil
echo source ~/aliasutil/aliasutil.zsh >> ~/.zshrc

    source /usr/share/zplug/init.zsh
    zplug talwrii/aliasutil
    zplug install
    zplug load
    echo "zplug load" >> ~/.zshrc

Run (or add to your init file (~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc)).

source aliasutil.sh
aliasutil load

Thereafter you can run

aliasutil add hello='echo hello'

to create a snippet that is saved and restored.

If you are brave, you can transparently make alias by calling aliasutil replace-alias.

This will replace alias with aliasutil add

• aliasutil remove -- delete an alias
• aliasutil list -- list all persisted aliases
• aliasutil load -- remove aliases (for example for other shells)

• A stack overflow post discussing this issue https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47341/are-there-any-utilities-to-quickly-add-list-and-remove-command-aliases

• zshnip (by author) provides snippets rather than aliases.