How to use aliases in vagrant?

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by larissa , in category: Third Party Scripts , 5 months ago

How to use aliases in vagrant?

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by tressie.damore , 5 months ago

@larissa 

To use aliases in Vagrant, you can create a simple shell script that sets up aliases for your commonly used Vagrant commands. Here's how you can do it:

  1. Create a new shell script file (e.g., vagrant-aliases.sh) in your home directory:
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touch ~/vagrant-aliases.sh


  1. Edit the shell script file and add your aliases. For example:
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alias up='vagrant up'
alias halt='vagrant halt'
alias reload='vagrant reload'


  1. Make the shell script executable:
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chmod +x ~/vagrant-aliases.sh


  1. Add the following line to your shell's configuration file (e.g., ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, or ~/.zshrc) to automatically load the aliases when you start a new shell session:
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source ~/vagrant-aliases.sh


  1. Save and close the configuration file, then reload it in your current shell session:
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source ~/.bashrc


You can now use the aliases you defined in your shell script whenever you run Vagrant commands. For example, instead of typing vagrant up, you can simply type up.