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glab-alias-set - Set an alias for a longer command.

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS  EXAMPLE  SEE ALSO 

NAME

glab-alias-set - Set an alias for a longer command.

SYNOPSIS

glab alias set ’’ [flags]

DESCRIPTION

Declare a word as an alias for a longer command.

Your expansion might include arguments and flags. If your expansion includes positional placeholders such as $1 or $2, any extra arguments that follow the invocation of an alias are inserted appropriately.

Specify --shell in your alias to run it through sh, a shell converter. Shell conversion enables you to compose commands with | or redirect with >, with these caveats:

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Any extra arguments following the alias are not passed to the expanded expression arguments by default.

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You must explicitly accept the arguments using $1, $2, and so on.

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Use $@ to accept all arguments.

For Windows users only:

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On Windows, shell aliases are executed with sh as installed by Git For Windows. If you installed Git in some other way in Windows, shell aliases might not work for you.

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Always use quotation marks when defining a command, as in the examples.

OPTIONS

-s, --shell[=false] Declare an alias to be passed through a shell interpreter.

OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

-h, --help[=false] Show help for this command.

EXAMPLE

$ glab alias set mrv ’mr view’
$ glab mrv -w 123
> glab mr view -w 123

$ glab alias set createissue ’glab create issue --title "$1"’
$ glab createissue "My Issue" --description "Something is broken."
> glab create issue --title "My Issue" --description "Something is broken."

$ glab alias set --shell igrep ’glab issue list --assignee="$1" | grep $2’
$ glab igrep user foo
> glab issue list --assignee="user" | grep "foo"

SEE ALSO

glab-alias(1)


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se