Do you literally mean /usr/local/bin? If so, placing executables with such a short name is likely to be problematic. Or do you talk about abbreviations you can use with brew, e.g. brew i would mean brew install. If that's what you are looking for, there's already a solution: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-aliases

Yeah, I think for either of these, per-user aliases configured in the shell (for standalone commands) or brew alias (for brew subcommands) is the way to go, not something global like adding to /usr/local/bin or making subcommand aliases for everyone.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-aliases is what I was talking about. Thanks @UniqMartin, wasn't able to find that, satisfies my need :)

@apjanke why not add subcommand aliases (like brew i for brew install) for everyone? I feel as if it's a common pattern for package managers now?

@AndrewSB We may consider that in future but not now.