1 00:00:01,430 --> 00:00:07,650 Two videos ago you might have seen me very quickly write out a command as K get pods as opposed to cutesy 2 00:00:07,730 --> 00:00:09,290 DL get bots. 3 00:00:09,290 --> 00:00:10,840 Now if you're on K get pods right now. 4 00:00:10,850 --> 00:00:15,170 I can just about guarantee you're going to get an error something says Unknown command K or something 5 00:00:15,170 --> 00:00:16,400 very similar. 6 00:00:16,490 --> 00:00:18,430 Let me tell you a little bit more about this shortcut. 7 00:00:18,470 --> 00:00:19,940 This is something that I do personally. 8 00:00:19,940 --> 00:00:23,900 You're going to see very few other people do this but it's something I found that really effective just 9 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:27,380 to save my self a tiny little bit of time every single day. 10 00:00:28,330 --> 00:00:31,150 I found that writing out the word cube TTL is just a little bit annoying. 11 00:00:31,180 --> 00:00:35,880 I make typos in it all the time and that's just annoying I don't want to do it. 12 00:00:35,980 --> 00:00:43,420 So instead I set up an alias on my computer but anytime I write out k it will be automatically translated 13 00:00:43,420 --> 00:00:44,660 into cubes TTL. 14 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:51,880 For me the exact process of how you do this is going to vary based upon your personal computer setup. 15 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:57,730 I personally use a shell called Z shell that means that the program that is running inside of my terminal 16 00:00:57,820 --> 00:01:03,900 and interpreting the commands that I run in or I type in that command or that program is called Z shell. 17 00:01:04,060 --> 00:01:06,920 You might be using something called Bash instead. 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:07,850 I don't really know. 19 00:01:07,870 --> 00:01:10,830 It really comes down to what you are doing on your local machine. 20 00:01:10,910 --> 00:01:14,510 So in setting up this alias you are going to have to do a little bit of research. 21 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:21,840 Let me show you how I do it on XYZ Show so I would open up inside my code Ed my Z shell RC file. 22 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,850 If you are running bash it would probably be Bashar C instead 23 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:29,960 so I can open it up and inside of here. 24 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,860 I got a little bit of shell configuration and the list of different aliases so these are commands that 25 00:01:34,860 --> 00:01:39,830 I could type into my terminal and they will be automatically expanded into something else instead. 26 00:01:39,870 --> 00:01:43,310 For me I write an alias k equals cube CTO. 27 00:01:43,380 --> 00:01:47,120 So again anytime I put in K it'll be expanded automatically. 28 00:01:47,130 --> 00:01:52,530 I've also got a little shortcut for Docker P.S. as well so I can type in just DP s and that will list 29 00:01:52,530 --> 00:01:54,140 out all my running terminals are awesome. 30 00:01:54,140 --> 00:01:58,740 All my running console containers so many piece of terminology here it will list out all my different 31 00:01:58,740 --> 00:02:03,630 running containers so again you might see me throughout the course running out. 32 00:02:03,620 --> 00:02:07,470 Just k if you ever see me right K I do not mean to in this course. 33 00:02:07,470 --> 00:02:11,910 I mean to show you the exact command every single time but every now and then and I'm trying to do something 34 00:02:11,910 --> 00:02:12,470 very quickly. 35 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:17,490 I might accidently fall back to writing out k instead and if I do so my apologies I do recommend you 36 00:02:17,490 --> 00:02:21,510 try out this little alias on your own if you figure out how to set it up because it is just a nice little 37 00:02:21,510 --> 00:02:22,820 time saver. 38 00:02:22,820 --> 00:02:23,110 Okay. 39 00:02:23,170 --> 00:02:23,510 That's it. 40 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,320 That's all I want to discuss with posture here. 41 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:26,360 Continue in just a minute.