Aliases

Aliases in Nushell offer a way of doing a simple replacement of command calls (both external and internal commands). This allows you to create a shorthand name for a longer command, including its default arguments.

For example, let's create an alias called ll which will expand to ls -l.

> alias ll = ls -l

We can now call this alias:

> ll

Once we do, it's as if we typed ls -l. This also allows us to pass in flags or positional parameters. For example, we can now also write:

> ll -a

And get the equivalent to having typed ls -l -a.

List all loaded aliases

Your useable aliases can be seen in $nu.scope.aliases.

Persisting

To make your alias persistent it must be added to your config.nu file.

For more details about how to persist aliases so that they're visible when you start up Nushell, see the configuration chapter.