RetroPie Command Line Improvements

First, I recommend the general raspberry pi command line upgrades that I’ve previously written about.

Second, I like to add three command line shortcuts to quickly allow restarting Emulation Station, running RetroPie Setup, or quitting Emulation Station from the command line.  (Quitting Emulation Station from the command line is particularly useful in the SSH context, particularly when editing gamelist.xml files.)

cd ~
sudo nano .bash_aliases

alias es=emulationstation
alias rps="sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh"
alias killes="kill $(pidof emulationstation)"

You can also simply type “exit” at the command line to relaunch emulation station, but this seems more elegant.