Make bash alias to simplifid commands and getting Not found Error

Question

for our web application we use useful commands such as :

php artiasn
php artisan serve
composer update
php artisan view:clear

and now i want to make alias for them into ~/.bash_profile

alias ps ="php artisan"
alias serve="php artisan serve"
alias cu="composer update"
alias vc="php artisan view:clear"

now when i try to reload the file by using source ~/.bash_profile i get this error:

.bash_profile:1: php artisan not found

I thought i should use cd for change to the directory before. I got the error again. for example:

alias ps ="cd /User/myname/Desktop/project php artisan"

@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ you right, after successfully reload the file. when i try to use alias commands i get `zsh: command not found: vc` error — DolDurma, Jan 17 '21 at 05:27
for Windows GitBash my issue was the single quote which copied from a webpage and I replaces the quotes with my keyboard singlequotes like - alias pa='php artisan' before it was like alias pa=’php artisan’ — Sabin Chacko, Mar 10 '23 at 05:56

DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-17T05:37:09.300

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If i remember correctly in the docs the space in between:

alias ps =

Should be:

alias ps=

Also instead of using source there is a shorter way with . ~/.zshrc

Per memory you have to reference where you have PHP. You can run which php to get the location if you cannot access from /usr/bin/php.

Can also try alias ps ="/usr/bin/php artisan"

edited Jan 17 '21 at 05:37

answered Jan 17 '21 at 05:24

putting aliases into `~/.zshrc` file and reload it, resolved my problem. please update your post and let me to accept that – DolDurma Jan 17 '21 at 05:35
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It might be better to use `#!/usr/bin/env php` rather than pointing to `/usr/bin/php` directly, depending on your needs. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/2429517/802469 – Reed Jan 17 '21 at 05:53

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