For the Laravel users out there the Laravel News site has shared some handy Bash aliases you can use from the command line to improve and streamline your workflow.

Bash aliases are shortcuts added to a file that allows you to reference another command through more memorable words, abbreviations, or characters. For example, if you use Git you may run git status many times throughout the day, so to save yourself time and keystrokes you could alias gs to git status and it’ll automatically expand and call the proper command.

Over the years I’ve seen a lot of unusual aliases and many are unique to the person. Shortcuts that make sense to me, might be confusing and weird to you. That’s what makes these so fun.

He shares how to create a basic alias in your .bash_aliases file and then shares some from different users in the community:

• WaveHack
• Jeffrey Way
• Bill Mitchell
• freekmurze
• sebastiaanluca

Each contribution includes the code needed to define their preferred aliases. They cover everything from general console command simplification out to more complex Laravel-specific functionality.