Utility for easily creating aliases from the command line. Can manually specify commands or use -l flag to read last item in bash_history

make_alias.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# -l flag uses last command from history file instead
if [ $1 == -l ]
  then
    full=`awk  'END{print}' ~/.bash_history`
    echo "Enter the short command to alias"
    read short
    echo "alias "$short"='$full'" >> ~/.bash_profile
    source ~/.bash_profile
    exit 0
fi

echo "Enter the short command to alias"
read short
echo "Enter the full command"
read full

echo "alias "$short"='$full'" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Alias this script in your bash_profile to use this from the command line (change path to match where you put the file):

alias mkal="~/.butils/make_alias"