Aliases

You can use commands_cli to create simple aliases for longer commands. This is useful for commands that you use frequently.

Basic Alias

Here is an example of how to create an alias for the dart command:

# commands.yaml

d: ## dart alias
  script: dart ...args

Here, ...args is a placeholder that automatically forwards any parameters you pass to the alias into the underlying command. We will learn more about this in the next section.

After activating the command with commands, you can run d --version which will expand to dart --version.

$ d --version
Dart SDK version: 3.9.0...

This allows you to create concise aliases while still keeping the flexibility to inject flags, options, or arguments dynamically at runtime.