In my quest to type less because I am getting lazy I am trying to automate as much as I can. Something that is a bit tiresome in Symfony2 is to have to specify the --env flag for each run on the command-line if you do not wish to run in the default built-in dev environment.

Turns out there is an extremely simple way to override this:

In your ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile) simply add

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export SYMFONY_ENV=prod

Any console command in your Symfony2 project will now run with –env=prod if you omit the flag.

Another useful thing to put in your ~/.profile is an alias for the app/console portion of your console command:

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# Symfony2 aliases
alias sf='app/console'

Now, instead of having to type

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$ app/console namespace:command

you can simply type

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$ sf namespace:command