In Grails we can add aliases for standard Grails commands with the alias command. For example we want to use another name for a command or combine a command with arguments to a single alias. With the following command we create a start-app alias for the standard run-app command:
$ grails alias start-app run-app Alias start-app with value run-app configured $
Now we can invoke $ grails start-app as an alternative for run-app. All aliases are stored in the file userHome/.grails/.aliases. This means the aliases we create are available for all Grails versions and applications of the current user. It is also good to notice than command arguments that start with - or -- are not saved as part of an alias. But for example the unit: argument for test-app can be part of an alias:
$ grails alias unitTest test-app unit: Alias unitTest with value test-app unit: configured $
We can even specify test class patterns to be part of the alias. We then invoke the new alias with extra arguments -echoOut and -echoErr:
$ grails alias test-controllers test-app unit: *Controller Alias test-controllers with value test-app unit: *Controller configured $ grails test-controllers -echoOut -echoErr ... $
To delete an alias we can remove it from the file userHome/.grails/.aliases or use $ grails alias --delete=alias.
We can see which aliases are defined with the --list argument:
$ grails alias --list test-controllers = test-app unit: *Controller start-app = run-app unitTest = test-app unit: $
Code written with Grails 2.3.8.
