fish: whitespace in alias I am trying to alias an executable in a directory with a space in it. For example: alias myfile="/home/ben/test case/myfile" Now, this is not expanded the way I want (it thinks `/home/ben/test` is the executable). In bash you can add extra quotes: alias myfile="'/home/ben/test case/myfile'" Sadly, in fish this does not work. What should I do instead?

alias in fish is just a wrapper for function builtin, it existed for backward compatible with POSIX shell. `alias` in `fish` didn't work as POSIX alias.

If you want the equivalent of POSIX `alias`, you must use abbr, which was added in fish 2.2.0:


abbr -a myfile "'/home/ben/test case/myfile'"


or:


abbr -a myfile "/home/ben/test\ case/myfile"