Persist aliases and other configuration in Fish Shell

Feb 6, 2023

Learn how to make Fish shell aliases and configuration persist across reboots by adding them to your ~/.config/fish/config.fish file.

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Note to self: whenever making aliases in Fish (or any other config!), add them to the ~/.config/fish/config.fish file.

So they will be persisted after a system reboot.

For example I set ls to be an alias of exa and cat to be an alias of bat:

Fish config file showing aliases for ll, gs, and other commands, with workflow steps to edit, save, and reload configuration

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