How to excute several commands with one command [duplicate]
Usually I need to exceute several commands every time Im at work, start local server, start docker bash, run frontend service...and I wish I could do all those stuff with one single command.
I tried using an alias, but the implementation I saw were more in the field of making long commands shorter, but I wasn't able to make an alias with several commands.
Any idea if is possible to run a series of commands one after the other with one single command?
You can chain several commands directly on the command line.
One option is to use a semicolon, like this:
command1; command2; command3
This will fire all 3 commands after each other, unconditionally.
You can also use a logical operator, like this:
command1 && command2 && command3
&&
is an "and" operator, and in this case command2
will only execute if command1
is successful etc.
You can also use this construction in aliases (with no need for a script), like this:
alias mycommand='command1; command2; command3'
Running several commands is pretty simple thanks to a script. Create any text file you want (e.g. a hidden file into your home).
gedit ~/.myscript.sh
Put the following content
#!/bin/bash
<my command 1>
<my command 2>
...
Make the file executable.
chmod +x ~/.myscript.sh
Then you can run the script with the following command.
~/.myscript.sh
Finally, you can add an alias into your ~/.bashrc
.
alias mycommand=~/.myscript.sh
So you can use mycommand
to execute your script.