How to create an alias that will open file in Brackets?

Question

New to this whole Linux thing, and creating alias' in Mac seemed a little easier!

Anyway, I'm trying to create an alias that will open the desired file within Brackets, or Sublime... etc.

I don't want to use gedit, prefer brackets for coding etc. Can't seem to find anything that specifically helps with this.

I.E in terminal:

codeit myFile.ext

codeit being almost the same functionality as gedit but opening desired file in Brackets/Sublime Text.

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly, your first step should be to install brackets. To do this, have a look at this tutorial.

Here are the commands you need:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/brackets
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install brackets

Then you should be able to open a file by typing brackets myFile.txt in your terminal.

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As your talking about "alias" in your question:

You can define an alias like alias newCommand='command to execute'. So using alias gedit='brackets' will run brackets myFile.txt when you typed gedit myFile.txt. To make this permanent, you have to add the line to your .bashrc.