How to add "platformio" / "pio" shortcut on Linux command line
Typically, when you want to use the pio
executable from PlatformIO, you need to first activate the virtual environment using
source ~/.platformio/penv/bin/activate
However, you can easily create a shortcut using a shell alias using:
For bash
:
echo -e '\nalias platformio="source ~/.platformio/penv/bin/activate"\n' >> ~/.bashrc
For zsh
:
echo -e '\nalias platformio="source ~/.platformio/penv/bin/activate"\n' >> ~/.zshrc
Note that in order for the change to take effect, you need to restart your shell(or open a new shell).
Now you can use run
platformio
and you’ll immediately have access to pio
and other PlatformIO tools.