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Terminal Aliases and Programs

If you use the Terminal utility in Tugboat’s previews, then it might be helpful to customize it, such as adding aliases and linking programs into the \$PATH. Here’s how you can do that from your config.yml file.

php:
  image: tugboatqa/php:8
  commands:
    init:
      # Create the standard long-list "ll" alias.
      - echo "alias ll='ls -la'" >> /root/.bashrc

      # If using composer, add the path to our "/vendor/bin" directory to the $PATH so we can call those programs
      # without typing out the full path.
      - echo "export PATH=$PATH:${TUGBOAT_ROOT}/vendor/bin" >> /root/.bashrc

Note: This snippet will make your aliases and programs available within the terminal utility from the UI only. They will not be available within the config.yml file itself.