Discover Meteor: Chapter 16-1, "Adding An Alias"

help
1

In the Discover Meteor Book, Chapter 16-1 it asks to create add an alias in the

.bash_profile

I have a PC and can’t seem to find that file?? I also tried the

touch~/.bash_profile .

How do I create those files?

2

Hello, I tried to find which section you’re talking about but wasn’t able to find any relevant text concering .bash_profile

Adding an alias is making a shortcut … for more information i would suggest you searching how to make aliases in cmd (if you use it).

Several people have asked the same question in stackoverflow including http://bit.ly/1boajIq. Im pretty sure you would be able to figure that out.

As generally the cmd is quite limiting compared to the unix terminal I do recommend you finding alternative such as http://conemu.github.io/ (which is what Sashko and Slava were using when they presented windows support on the SF DevShop in March). From then on should be easier making aliases.

Sidenote:
In unix ~/ leads you to the User profile folder.

Regards
L

3

Here is a pic of the part in Chapter 16, I’m not sure how you do this for Windows PC.

4

.bash_profile is specific to bash shell. Unix, Mac environment both have that shell.
In Windows environment does not support nor have this file.

A workaround that might have similar effect as alias.

Correct me if I am wrong, I haven’t used Windows for years…lol
Create a .bat file in Windows, write commands you need line by line, save it.
When you need to make JSON file, simply double click that .bat file you created. :smiley: