Where / how are aliases stored?

General
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I’m using zsh + oh-my-zsh on a Mac and have just started using atuin. I’m curious to know where atuin stores aliases as I am used to creating them manually in .bashrc or .zshrc. Maybe the atuin binary is storing them in the sqlite db? I’ve tried grep’ing the usual config files but couldn’t find anything.

So far I just created the ‘ll’ alias from the atuin install docs so have at least one alias set. How does atuin store the alias and make it available to the shell when a new terminal session starts?

Thanks!

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We inject them into the atuin init <shell name> call if

  1. dotfiles are enabled
  2. you have aliases set

They’re technically stored in the sqlite, but we pre-generate and cache them in ~/.local/share/atuin/dotfiles/cache. This is to avoid opening a connection to sqlite as part of the shell init - shaves a few ms off of startup.