- Why am I doing this?

Running Jupyter and PIP becomes painful if you don't have admin privileges for your computer; A solution to this is to enter the entire path to PIP and/or Jupyter but it can very time consuming and inefficient. A way around this is to create and alias for the terminal to interpret a short command as if you were entering the entire path to PIP and/or Jupyter.

1. Find the location of your executables

These are the locations for Python, pip, and jupyter in my computer:

> ~\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\python.exe
>~\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\Scripts\pip.exe
> ~\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\Scripts\jupyter-notebook.exe

2. Create a PowerShell profile

Just type the following in your PowerShell terminal:

> New-Item -Type file -Force $profile

3. Find the location of your profile file

For my computer the location is the following:

> \Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

4. Edit your profile file with the following aliases

Set-Alias py   "~\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\python.exe"
Set-Alias pip  "~\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\Scripts\pip.exe"
Set-Alias jup  "~\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\Scripts\jupyter-notebook.exe"

Remember that the path above are specific for my computer, you should update according to the file structure in your own computer.

5. Close PowerShell and open a new session

6. Test the aliases in PowerShell

For example, type the following to launch a Jupyter notebook in any directory:

> cd Documents
> ezj