New feature for 1.26 (master), $(JUJU_HOME)/aliases

[Dimiter Naydenov]

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Awesome!! \o/

As a big fan of aliases (bash, git, etc.) I'd start using this right
away with juju now! :)

Thanks Tim!

Dimiter

On 23.10.2015 07:12, Tim Penhey wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I scratched a personal itch yesterday and added the ability for
> users to specify their own aliases for juju commands.
> 
> There are two primary use cases that I was trying to address.
> 
> Firstly, the ability to specify default flags for commands: status
> = status --format=tabular
> 
> I could never remember the right environment variable to set to
> get tabular by default.
> 
> The second was to allow quicker iteration around playing with new
> CLI structure.  As most people are aware, the 2.0 CLI is going to
> be somewhat different to the current one, and I thought it would be
> good to provide a way in which we could "test drive" the new CLI
> with the existing codebase without having to actually code
> anything.
> 
> The aliases files lives in JUJU_HOME, and is a simple text file.
> Each non blank line that doesn't start with a '#' is considered to
> be an alias. The format is expected to be:
> 
> <command> = <command> [<args>...]
> 
> So we can do things like:
> 
> # stat is like two whole letters shorter... stat = status
> --format=tabular
> 
> # list tests list-environments = system environments list-users =
> user list
> 
> and so on.
> 
> Tim
> 


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Dimiter Naydenov <dimiter.naydenov at canonical.com>
Juju Core Sapphire team <http://juju.ubuntu.com>
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