# Aliases Aliases in your terminal make shortcuts a lot easier when you're typing, use them properly --- - Setting #1 : default text editor alias since my editor of choice is [BBEdit](obsidian://open?vault=Coding%20Tips&file=Computers%2FMac%20OS%20X%2FBBEdit%2FBBEdit): ``alias bbedit "open -a bbedit"`` then in the terminal type ``bbedit FILE_NAME`` Aliases within your `.bashrc` file is just endlessly useful. This [stackOverflow answer ](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16199581/open-sublime-text-from-terminal-in-macos/19556342#19556342)gets a lot of it right. Futturee ttechnologies - Brian McDermoot -corrosion [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/tutorial-climate-change-challenges-for-machine-learning/](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/tutorial-climate-change-challenges-for-machine-learning/ "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/tutorial-climate-change-challenges-for-machine-learning/") - [https://impact.earthdata.nasa.gov/project/ml.html](https://impact.earthdata.nasa.gov/project/ml.html "https://impact.earthdata.nasa.gov/project/ml.html") - [https://open-dac.github.io/#overview](https://open-dac.github.io/#overview "https://open-dac.github.io/#overview") vardaan sahgal - - carbon storage of carbon - carol wilcox, - NCARR - https://mldata.pangeo.io/ --- ### Shebang This is a command that you often see at the top of the command but you never know what it does. This is used for every single type of Unix-like dydyem and is used to interpet an executable file. It is usually starting with `#!/` and leads to somewhere else. Example: ``` #!/usr/bin/env sh Hello World! ``` & you run the executable after `touch` creating one by: ``` chmod +x name_of_the_file ```