Creating Alias through Terminal?

[giga Veteran]

As the topic states, any command to create an alias through Terminal?

Alias =! symlinks so don't tell me ln -s. :p

[Mike]

assume it should be similar for mac as *nix, tried 'alias foo=bar' ?

[giga Veteran]

Oh no, I'm not looking for the alias command but for a way to create Aliases in OS X through terminal. (similar to a symlink)

[gigapixels Veteran]

Alias = shortcut on Windows, for those who are unclear.

Just from reading this, I'm betting it's not possible. Apparently the terminal doesn't really even care that aliases exist.

[kjordan2001]

  giga said:

Oh no, I'm not looking for the alias command but for a way to create Aliases in OS X through terminal. (similar to a symlink)

There's a mkalias command in http://osxutils.sourceforge.net/

Although...

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Unfortunately, aliases cannot be used via the command line. You cannot cd into an alias or edit it via the command line -- the actual data within the alias is stored in the resource fork. Apple has not provided any tool to create aliases via the command line, but I provide mkalias for this very task in my osxutils package (*shameless plug*).

From: http://www.sveinbjorn.org/cljg2macosx

[giga Veteran]

Aliases are more comparable to a symbolic link than a shortcut--the main difference being that they stay intact even when the target file is moved.

They're actually shown as 0 byte files in Terminal because they're loaded in the resource fork. (while regular symlinks are sized, with their string names)

Maybe SetFile?

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/D.../SetFile.1.html

edit: I'll try the above, thanks!

[the evn show]

EDIT: removed - redundant.

[gigapixels Veteran]

  giga said:

Aliases are more comparable to a symbolic link than a shortcut--the main difference being that they stay intact even when the target file is moved.

Ah, I forgot about that fact. I don't use a Mac much :D