Show HN: Coal – Containerized shell alias manager

Working on multiple projects at once with long build commands gets tedious quickly - I built coal to quickly containerize and manage your aliases.

Simple usage example:

$ coal new aws-lambda

$ coal add update "aws lambda update-function-code --function-name func --zip-file fileb:///tmp/main.zip"

$ coal add errors "aws logs filter-log-events --log-group-name /aws/lambda/func --filter-pattern \"ERROR\""

$ update

{ "FunctionName": "func", ... "LastUpdateStatus": "Successful" }

$ errors

{ "events": [ { "logStreamName": "<redacted>", ... "message": "ERROR...", }, ... }

$ coal new git

$ coal add update "git pull"

$ update

Already up to date.

$ coal load aws-lambda

$ update

{ "FunctionName": "func", ... "LastUpdateStatus": "Successful" }

Nice, looks like direnv. I'll give it a try