[ SOLVED ] Script for adding aliases

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Hi all
Im experimenting on making a script to echo my personal aliases into $HOME and /root/ .bashrc and then execute source $HOME./bashrc to initiate my aliases?

Or, is it possible to add a snippet into the configuration to do this?

Example:
.users.users.root = { shell = pkgs.mkShell { buildInputs = [ pkgs.bashInteractive ]; shellHook = '' echo "Setting up root shell environment" echo "alias tolga='sudo /home/tolga/scripts/MYTOOLS/scripts/GENERATION-TRIMMER/TrimmGenerations.sh'" >> $HOME/.profile ''; }; };

When i run the rebuild switch i get the following error:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch
building Nix...
building the system configuration...
error: /nix/store/87fvbizwrib5j4zp48ygv2yv9j29ksbw-nix-shell is not a shell package
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
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mkShell is a convenience helper for declaring shell environments for use with nix-shell.

A user’s shell should be an actual shell (such as bashInteractive).

There are probably a few ways to do what you’re trying to accomplish. If you want these in Nix itself, there’s environment.shellAliases, but that’ll apply for all users. (Is that acceptable, or do you need to declare them only for the root user?)

I don’t really use any aliases, so I don’t have the best sense of what people do here–but I imagine someone who does will chime in.

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Thank you very much for your respone :innocent:

After much tinkering and many failed attempts :sweat_smile: to get it to work, I finally got my head around it and came up with this, which works fantastically, both in fish and bash:

aliases-bash
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I’ll mark this thread SOLVED.

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hi I’m starting-off with nix too can you share how you reference your aliases .nix file in from your main nix config.
just curious :wink:
tnx

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sure, no problem.

1st up, which console you going to use?

my github: My personal configs

look into core/programs/konsole/default.nix

feel free to dig around, star and fork if you wish