In shells, an alias is an alternate name for a command. For instance, "ll" is an alias for "ls -l" on many systems.
In shells, an alias is an alternate name for a command. For instance, "ll" is an alias for "ls -l" on many systems.
Questions tagged [alias]
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How to see the command attached to a bash alias?
Suppose I have an alias in the bash shell. Is there a simple command to print out what command the alias will run?
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How do I create a permanent Bash alias?
I would like to create an alias to rm command in order to have a confirmation message after executing this command. So I am creating an alias like this alias rm='rm -i'. But as far as I know this is a temporary alias and it lives until you close the…
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How do I remove an alias?
I want to remove the gs alias from my PC. When I type gs it opens GhostScript. But I checked everywhere in the home directory .alias, .bash_aliases, and .bashrc.
I also overwrote gs with my custom alias.
I can't remove it. I've also typed alias in…
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Aliases not available when using sudo
I was playing around with aliases today and I noticed that aliases don't seem to be available whilst using sudo:
danny@kaon:~$ alias
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias l='ls…
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How to run an alias in a shell script?
I have an executable file mpiexec, whose full path is ~/petsc-3.2-p6/petsc-arch/bin/mpiexec. Since I want to execute this command in different directories (without having to retype the entire path), I setup an alias in my home .bashrc file:
alias…
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Bypass the yes/no prompt in 'apt-get upgrade'
In order avoid typing out all of the apt-get commands when updating my computer I have made a simple alias command to do it. But I really want to be able to just type in my alias and let it do its thing and not have to wait to for the yes/no prompt…
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How to make a permanent alias in oh-my-zsh?
In my .zshrc I tried to make a few aliases .I looked into a lot of places, but I couldn't find out a way that worked. I used this code below:
# Set personal aliases, overriding those provided by oh-my-zsh libs,
# plugins, and themes. Aliases can…
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How can I preset aliases for all users?
I have Ubuntu 14.04.2. I want to make it so all users automatically have a specific set of aliases. I have my aliases set in my personal .bashrc, but I don't want to have to manually copy them into the other users. Ideally it should automatically…
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What command is the alias ll for?
Can someone tell me what terminal command the alias ll is for? All I can find online is many people saying that it is an alias for ls -l or ls -la or ls -ltr. But that's simply wrong. The result looks different. Is there any way to locate ll and…
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How to add an alias to a command in terminal?
By typing a manually specified command in terminal I want to execute some other command.
How could add an alias to a command? Can i do that with the help of the terminal or should I edit some kind of file?
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Is there a way to echo an alias?
I have set some aliases in my .bashrc file and for some reason one of them does not behave as expected.
Since I don't remember the exact command assigned to that alias, I would like to see the command to find out what's wrong.
Except the obvious…
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Can I pass arguments to an alias command?
I want to know if I can pass an argument with an alias command.
for example:
alias d="dmesg | grep -iw usb | tail -5"
Now d will print the last 5 lines. If I want to use d to print a different number of lines, I have to make change in the alias…
srk_cb
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How can I create an alias for cd and ls?
I frequently run the ls command after running the cd command. How can I create an alias (like cs) for this operation?
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How can I run the original command that I also have aliased with same name?
I have an alias for the ls command in my ~/.bashrc file aliased with this one:
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
When I run the ls command in a terminal, the aliased ls (ls --color=auto) runs.
My question is: how can I run the original ls only (not the…
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Understanding .bashrc and .bash_profile
On a server when I login as root I see .bashrc (Ubuntu 10.10).
On my Mac I have a .bash_profile
Does Ubuntu always have only a .bashrc file and not .bash_profile? (I'm just confused, so asking, I realize they are different o/s's but maybe there is a…
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