amoxide (am) - alias manager oxidized

If you only have a handful of shell aliases in your dotfiles, you're missing out. amoxide (am) lets you define aliases per project, per toolchain, or globally — and loads the right ones automatically when you cd into a directory. Think direnv, but for aliases.

cd ~/my-rust-project
# cargo test is now: t
# cargo clippy <with-a-lot-of-options> is now: l
cd ~/my-node-project
same aliases, different commands, loaded automatically
the rust ones are gone — no pollution

Screenshots

• am tui launches the tui to navigate, select, move, add, and delete aliases visually:

• am ls the regular cli

Installation

Homebrew (macOS and Linux)

brew install sassman/tap/amoxide sassman/tap/amoxide-tui

Shell Script (macOS and Linux)

curl -fsSL https://github.com/sassman/amoxide-rs/releases/latest/download/amoxide-installer.sh | sh
curl -fsSL https://github.com/sassman/amoxide-rs/releases/latest/download/amoxide-tui-installer.sh | sh

PowerShell (Windows)

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/sassman/amoxide-rs/releases/latest/download/amoxide-installer.ps1 | iex"
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/sassman/amoxide-rs/releases/latest/download/amoxide-tui-installer.ps1 | iex"

Cargo (pre-built)

cargo binstall amoxide amoxide-tui

Cargo (from source)

cargo install amoxide amoxide-tui

The crate is called amoxide, but the binary it installs is simply am (short for amoxide).

Shell Support

Shell	Status
Fish	Fully supported and tested
PowerShell	Supported and tested (5.1 + 7)
Zsh	Supported, not yet tested
Bash	Supported (3.2+)
Brush	Supported (bash-compatible)
Nushell	Not yet implemented

Quick Setup

am setup fish          # or: zsh, bash, brush, powershell

Then add your first alias:

am add -l t cargo test     # project-local alias
am add -p rust t cargo test # profile alias
am add -g ll ls -lha        # global alias

Documentation

Full documentation — usage guides, profiles, project aliases, parameterized aliases, and more:

amoxide.rs