load-bash-alias

Convert bash aliases into eshell ones.

Installation

Manual

1. Download and copy load-bash-alias.el into ~/.emacs.d/lisp directory.
2. Add the following elisp code to your Emacs config:

;; Tell Emacs where is your personal elisp lib directory
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/")

;; load-bash-alias
;; https://github.com/daviderestivo/load-bash-alias
(load-library "load-bash-alias")

3. Call load-bash-alias-load-bash-alias-into-eshell interactive function to convert bash aliases into eshell ones:

M-x load-bash-alias-load-bash-alias-into-eshell

Melpa

Add the following elisp snippet to your init.el:

(use-package load-bash-alias
  :ensure t
  :config
  (setq load-bash-alias-bashrc-file "~/.bashrc")
  (setq load-bash-alias-exclude-aliases-regexp "^alias magit\\|^alias oc"))

Customization

The location of your barshrc file can be customized by setting the value of load-bash-alias-bashrc-file variable:

(setq load-bash-alias-bashrc-file "~/.bashrc")

In case you want to add more alias files please add them to bash-alias-additional-aliases-files. For example:

(setq load-bash-alias-additional-aliases-files '("~/.dotfiles/bashrc_addons"))

In addition it's possible to exclude certain bash aliases to be converted into eshell ones simply setting load-bash-alias-exclude-aliases-regexp:

(setq load-bash-alias-exclude-aliases-regexp "^alias magit\\|^alias oc")

Credits

The original ideas for this package has been taken from Skye. The original elisp code can be found here.