# Quickly adding new aliases to your bash profile

Bash shortcuts can make your workflow really quick.

So here's a shortcut to make adding shortcuts really quick.

Put this in your `~/.bash_profile`

```
source ~/.aliases
```

and add this in `~/.aliases`

```
alias aliases="vim ~/.aliases; source ~/.aliases;"
```

If I want to make a new shortcut to take me to my `~/dev` folder,

I press `aliases` and type enter, then I paste this
```
alias dev="mkdir -p ~/dev; cd ~/dev"
```
and save and quit using `:wq` (VIM) and now you can use your new alias immediately.

typing `dev` should take you to your dev folder from any where in your terminal.