# Application & Web Access Commands - 1Īlias rdc='open -na Microsoft\ Remote\ Desktop'Īlias smc='open -a Cisco\ An圜onnect\ Secure\ Mobility\ Client'Īlias mu='osascript -e \'set volume output volume 0\''Īlias fv='osascript -e \'set volume output volume 100\'' Īlias editsh='nano ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc'Īlias gtalias='alias | grep \'^alias gt\'' Now, all you have to do is type am in Terminal, press enter, and it opens Activity Monitor.įWIW, here's other aliases too that I have in my ~/.zshrc that have incredibly improved my ability to use macOS: # - File Access Commands. Put the following line in ~/.zshrc: alias am='open -a activity\ monitor' I just added a \ in front of the special characters to escape them and then it all worked as expected.) All of my bash aliases worked fine except for the ones containing special characters. Put the following line in ~/.bash_profile file: (I switched to zsh finally. Most pro users use them pretty frequently and I have one for launching Activity Monitor as well.Įven on macOS Big Sur my default shell is bash and not zsh.
