First things first: What is an alias, and why do I care? Well, an alias is a custom command created by the user to execute another, usually more complicated command or group of commands. The utility of aliases
Bash aliases are essentially shortcuts that can save you from having to remember long commands and eliminate a great deal of typing when you are working on the command line. For example, you could set the alias tgz to be a shortcut for the tar -xvfz command .This...
Once you set an alias in.bash_profile, you need to make sure it’s working. You can do this by running this command:source ~/.bash_profile. This will reload everything without having to quit out of terminal to reset, so that you can see the changes in action. Then you can runalias...
#My custom aliasesalias home=”ssh -i ~/.ssh/mykep.pem[email protected]”alias ll="ls -alF" Save the file. The file will be automatically loaded in your next session. If you want to use the newly defined alias in the current session, issue the following command: $ source ~/.bashrc...
Putting it all together, you get something like “ls tried to open /dsafsda but couldn’t because it doesn’t exist.” This may seem obvious, but these messages can get a little confusing when you run a shell script that includes an erroneous command under a different name. ...
How to define and use functions in Bash? You can define functions in your .bashrc file with your other bash alias. In a shell script, the function can be defined anywhere before being called for execution and you can source your function definitions by using the source or dot command. A ...
let's say you have a long and complicated command that you frequently use in the terminal. instead of typing the whole thing every time, you can create an alias that represents that command with a shorter and easier-to-remember name. how can i create an alias in the terminal? to create...
alias [alias]='[path-to-script]/[filename].sh'Copy For example, type the command below to createfrenameas an alias for thefile_rename.shbashscript located in the user's home directory: alias frename='/home/[user]/file_rename.sh'Copy ...
Linux uses an enhanced version of the Bourne shell called bash or the “Bourne-again” shell. The bash shell is the default shell on most Linux distributions, and /bin/sh is normally a link to bash on a Linux system. You should use the bash shell when running the examples in this book...
The first of these is the definition of thealertalias. The second is anifstatement. It translates to, "if the file ".bash_aliases" exists, read it in." If you only have a few aliases that you wish to define, you might put them in your ".bashrc" file. Tuck them in below the se...