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Shell Aliases

Source: https://pi.dev/docs/latest/shell-aliases

Pi runs bash in non-interactive mode (bash -c), which does not expand aliases by default.

To enable your shell aliases, set shellCommandPrefix in ~/.pi/agent/settings.json:

json
{
  "shellCommandPrefix": "shopt -s expand_aliases\neval \"$(grep '^alias ' ~/.zshrc)\""
}

The value is a JSON string: \n is an escaped newline inside the prefix and the inner double quotes are backslash-escaped. Adjust the path (~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc, …) to match your shell config. The prefix is prepended to every bash command Pi runs.