glab alias set

Set an alias for a longer command.

## Synopsis

Declare a word as an alias for a longer command.

Your expansion might include arguments and flags. If your expansion includes positional placeholders such as $1 or $2, any extra arguments that follow the invocation of an alias are inserted appropriately.

Specify --shell in your alias to run it through sh, a shell converter. Shell conversion enables you to compose commands with | or redirect with >, with these caveats:

• Any extra arguments following the alias are not passed to the expanded expression arguments by default.
• You must explicitly accept the arguments using $1, $2, and so on.
• Use $@ to accept all arguments.

For Windows users only:

• On Windows, shell aliases are executed with sh as installed by Git For Windows. If you installed Git in some other way in Windows, shell aliases might not work for you.
• Always use quotation marks when defining a command, as in the examples.

glab alias set <alias name> '<command>' [flags]

## Examples

glab alias set mrv 'mr view'

glab mrv -w 123

# :-> glab mr view -w 123


glab alias set createissue 'glab create issue --title "$1"'

glab createissue "My Issue" --description "Something is broken."

# :-> glab create issue --title "My Issue" --description "Something is broken."


glab alias set --shell igrep 'glab issue list --assignee="$1" | grep $2'

glab igrep user foo

# :-> glab issue list --assignee="user" | grep "foo"

## Options

  -s, --shell   Declare an alias to be passed through a shell interpreter.

## Options inherited from parent commands

  -h, --help   Show help for this command.