Quickly changing your .bashrc file

I use aliases all the time and am always adding more shortcuts for my terminal experience to the .bashrc file. So it's only natural that I made a convenient alias for doing exactly that.

Add this line to your .bashrc file:

alias vib='vi ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc'

Then type source ~/.bashrc and the change will have been made.

So whenever you want to change your .bashrc file and have it come into effect for the current terminal:

vib

which will edit .bashrc and will run source on it automatically when you finish editing.