---
title: "twtxt config alias"
date: 2020-05-30T11:56:31+02:00
draft: false
snippet_types: ["zsh", "twtxt"]
---

Recently I started using [twtxt](https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/). I
installed it with brew then setup it up via the quick setup command. The
problem is when you put a config file location other then the default when
you call the command you get a 
**"✗ Config file not found or not readable. You may want to run twtxt quickstart."**
error. This is super annoying so I aliased the command to always include the location of my
config file.

```diff
  alias gpf="gp --force"
+ alias tw="twtxt -c ~/.twtxt/config"
```

Now posting is as easy as:

```shell
$ tw tweet "authoring a snippet on how to configure alias twtxt"
```