Self-sourcing bash profile

23 Jul 2015 →

If you’re like me, you’re constantly popping into ~/.bash_profile (or it’s friends) and making tweaks. I’ve always kept an alias for this, eb. That makes the edit quicker, but the obnoxious source ~/.bash_profile remains. Of course you could plop another alias down for the sourcing, but that’s kind of gross. Instead, you can make your eb alias source after the edit is complete:

alias eb="vim ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile"

When you use that alias, you pop into ~/bash_profile, save your change, and continue to hack away.