I use MAMP on my local as part of my development environment. When dropping to terminal to perform an action (e.g. git commit/checkout/etc.) I was getting tired of manually changing my directory to the default MAMP root (cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wp-content) so I figured that I’d add an alias using the following:
echo 'alias mamp="cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wp-content"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
This seemed to work but much to my chagrin the next time I rebooted or opened a new terminal the alias appeared to be gone, bringing me back to step one. I finally figured out how to get this to work permanently …
- issue
nano ~/.bash_profileto edit your bash profile - add in
alias mamp="cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wp-content"and close and save
voila!