Questions tagged [alias]
An alias is essentially nothing more than a keyboard shortcut, an abbreviation, a means of avoiding typing a long command sequence. This can save a great deal of typing at the command-line and avoid having to remember complex combinations of commands and options.
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How can I set an alias for a specific ssh command? [duplicate]
I'm a beginner in Linux, using Ubuntu.
I want to make it easier to login to a server using ssh.
In my institute, our login command is ssh -Y -p 4022 [email protected].
How can I make an alias for this?
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create an alias on ZSH but need to type it twice
I'm trying to create an alias on ZSH.
The aim of the alias is to activate a python virtualenv.
I've put a line in my .zshrc
alias SOU="source /home/andykw/.zshrc && source $(setopt ...
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Why bash aliases commands are not working?
I am facing a problem with bash alias in Kali linux. Let me tell from the beginning.
I want to set some command to save time from writing it again and again. So, I used
nano /.bash_aliases
and set a ...
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Update `.bashrc` and reload
I have a script that inserts some lines to the bottom of my .bashrc, is there a way to source the .bashrc from within the script so that these changes remain once the script has finished? Here's an ...
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fish - Maximum recursion depth reached with tab-complete
With my fish shell, I have defined the alias
alias black='command black -l 110'
When I type black in my shell and start to tab-complete, I get the error
complete: maximum recursion depth reached
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Cannot use awk in alias command chain
I'd like to add this command chain to alias to have a shorthand:
tail -10000 /var/log/nginx/access.log | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10
However, as alias it does not work as ...
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How to set python 3 as default interpreter in Linux
I have python 2.x and 3.x installed on my Linux box. but to run the python 3.x I have to type command python3 <cmd> . But i want to update the alias python to point python3 so I don't have to ...
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Using aliases in bash scripts
I have a bash file with a number of functions, which I source from my .bashrc.
Have a print_text function to print some text to which I associate an alias ptx.
The alias is used in a number of ...
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fish shell alias only in specific directory
I am using fish and am working on a project with a script that's frequently invoked for build tasks called x.py. I'd like to create an alias that maps x to ./x.py. However, I only want this to apply ...
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!!: command not found
Recently, I was getting a bit frustrated about not running commands as admin, and started using sudo !! a lot. I decided that, for ease of use, I'd create an alias ffs for that exact line. I added the ...
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Finding duplicate aliases and functions in a script (.bashrc etc)
This site says that functions are faster than aliases, but he rightly points out that aliases are easier to understand - when you want something very simple and do not need to consider passing ...
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bash, pass an argument to the 'history' command
I do the following to make history more sensible (i.e. seeing when a command is run can be fairly critical when troubleshooting)
shopt -s histappend; # Append commands to the bash history (~/....
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alias for podman docker-compose -H unix:///run/user/$UID/podman/podman.sock up -d
This command runs containers using podman rootless with docker-compose. Is it possible to create an alias for this?
docker-compose -H unix:///run/user/$UID/podman/podman.sock up -d
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Can I define an alias in bashrc in an incremental way?
In my .bashrc, at the moment, I have something like this:
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
# ...
alias ls='ls --color=auto -F'
# ...
fi
# xxx
alias ll='ls -AltF'
Now let's say that I ...
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Multi-word aliases in bash
I'm trying to add a multi-word alias in my .bashrc. More specifically, I want apt update to be sudo apt update -y. But I can't figure out how to specify a multi-word alias. I've tried the following, ...
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