How to make abbreviations for a subset of aliases

[sandorex]

So i keep a file that has common aliases between bash and zsh, i want to add abbr without duplicating entries for both

My plan was to use function like this

a() {
    if [ "$1" = "-a" ]; then
        shift

        # abbr is only for zsh, otherwise make a normal alias
        if command -v abbr &>/dev/null; then
            abbr -S "$@"
        else
            alias "$@"
        fi
    else
        alias "$@"
    fi
}

Any way to do this?

[olets]

Have you tried abbr import-aliases https://zsh-abbr.olets.dev/commands.html#import-aliases? Something like this might work for you:

aliases file

alias one="two"

bashrc

source path/to/aliases/file

zshrc

source path/to/aliases/file

# load zsh-abbr and then

abbr -q import-aliases

[sandorex]

I do not want them all to be imported i want some to be regular aliases
I guess i could just write a generator function then evaluate it in the shell

[olets]

Maybe in .zshrc

1. source file with aliases you want abbreviations for, and load zsh-abbr (order of those two doesn't matter)
2. abbr -q import-aliases
3. then define other aliases (inline or by sourcing a file)

That might not exactly fit with how you use your a. But something like it should work