A Nice Shell Alias
You know how those installations always expect you to restart your shell for changes to take effect? closing / reopening and then cding to your current directory can feel tedious. Luckily, there’s a bash one-liner that restarts your shell, in window:
exec "$SHELL" -l
Dissection:
exec– run command, replacing current process"$SHELL"– run the default shell.-l– Run it as a login shell.
I don’t know what the implications are of reloading a shell, but this does what I want right after I’m done installing something.
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