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shell version of gh alias set #941
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What's a shell alias? It's like doing this in git:
git alias beanlog "!sh -c 'git log | grep beans'"Just a small correction: I don't think there is a
git aliascommand, at least there never was one for me 🤔 So wouldn't the git example be something like:git config --global alias.beanlog "!sh -c 'git log | grep beans'"Furthermore, I would just like to warn that enclosing a
!character in double quotes in bash is usually going to explode:$ echo "!" -bash: !: event not found
This is because
!is a special character that triggers history expansion in bash. It can be escaped with a backslash, but in that case the backslash isn't stripped (for some reason):$ echo "\!" \!
I would recommend that we always enclose strings that contain a
!in single quotes rather than double quotes when showing usage examples, to ensure maximum portability:gh alias set beanissue '!sh -c "gh issue list | grep beans"'
Reacted by Nate Smithah thanks for pointing that out; my brain was inventing syntax ^_^
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This issue covers augmenting
gh aliasto support shell-based invocation.What's a shell alias? It's like doing this in git:
and for us would look like
Seeing the ! prefix on an alias would bypass any checking for correct commands, leaving that in the
hands of the user. Otherwise these should be printable and shareable and deletable just like the
other style of alias.
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