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 to make `python` an alias of `python3` systemwide on Debian
The latest updates of my Debian testing system removed Python version 2, and I only have Python 3 installed, with python3. There is no longer any command named python. This causes several scripts to ...
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How can I make this git alias with quotes work?
I want to make a git diff alias that only shows the changed lines (coloured).
[alias]
mdiff = diff --color | grep --color=never $'^\e\[3[12]m'
This doesn't work, as apparently pipes cannot be ...
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Aliasing grep in find's -exec option
I have these aliases in my ~/.bashrc
alias grep='grep --color=auto -H'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto -H'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto -H'
but they have no effect when I run find ... -exec grep .....
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Scaping single quota in zsh alias
I like create any alias for docker commandas, and I need any alias use single quotes.
I see post Escaping quotes in zsh alias but not work for me.
Tried in .zshrc
function dinfoip() {
docker ...
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xdg-open autocomplete not working when calling it with alias
I've set an alias to xdg-open adding alias op="xdg-open" to my ~/.bashrc file.
The command op file.pdf works, but I'm not able to autocomplete when typing, for example, op fi and hitting TAB....
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Linux - User Display name alias in shell prompt
Is it possible to alias the user display name in the shell prompt?
For example: When I ssh with john123@192.168.1.2, it displays as John123
[John123@myhost ~]#
Can I change it to a alias csgeek ...
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How can I enforce HTTP basic authentication on an Apache directory that is an alias?
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 with Apache 2.4. I have created this htpasswd file ...
$ ls -al /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data root 49 Aug 20 20:57 /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
I have this in my /etc/...
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bash function to replace every occurence of text in directory and subdirectories
I found (on Google) this perfectly working line to replace every occurences in all files in my directory and subdirectories:
grep -lr previoustext | xargs sed -i 's/previoustext/newtext/g'
It works ...
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Where are default aliases defined
I've got a fresh install of CentOS 8 (minimal ISO). I notice that, despite none being listed in either .bashrc or .bash_profile, a bunch of aliases are defined by default in bash. For example,
alias ...
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When should you make a symbolic link instead of making an alias?
It's possible that making a symbolic link is not at all comparable to making an alias. But from what I understand about symbolic links so far, they do the same thing as setting an alias: they define a ...
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Nested settings in ssh config for domains and aliased subdomains
How can I have rules for a whole domain and also create aliases with rules for each of the subdomains without duplicating all the ruleset?
In other words, why is it that in the following example ...
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How do I source a new .bashrc in an alias that switches my shell?
I have an alias I use to run sudo -s called ssu. I want it to also source my root session from the .profile in my home directory.
Other answers seem to say that this is the solution:
alias ssu='sudo -...
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Why are aliases skipped if escaped?
A common way to skip aliases is to add a backslash before the aliased command.
For example,
$ alias ls='ls -l'
$ ls file
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 70 Jul 30 14:37 file
$ \ls file
file
My research has ...
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Running a script when a particular command is run
I want to run "./dothis.sh" if someone executes "cat abc.txt"
Is there some way to do this without using alias?
I want to use this for strengthening security of some specific files ...
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Execute zsh alias when name contains a hyphen
A stock-standard zsh behaves as follows with an alias with a - in it, eg: a-a:
% zsh -f
svelte% alias a-a=date
svelte% a-a
Sun 19 Jul 2020 17:20:05 +07
My configuration has it behave as follows:
% ...
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Can we make aliases for the commands with parameters
I want to make alias for:
rm -rf * => #rm -rf *
rm * => #rm *
When I type rm -rf *, I want it to be commented out and not take action.
[Q] General question is can we make generate aliases for ...
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Unsure if alias to combine apt-get update and apt-get upgrade is working correctly
Here are the aliases in question:
alias update='sudo apt-get update'
alias upgrade='sudo apt-get upgrade'
alias upgrate='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade'
Here's the output when I ...
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How to find where ksh setup aliases?
Where ksh can load aliases from?
Checked /etc/profile, ~/.profile - nothing
There is no ~/.kshrc.
Tried:
$ grep -r 'alias BADALIAS' /etc - also nothing
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Which binary would be run when we have multiple installations?
I wanted to set gsettings as /usr/bin/gsettings so I created an alias. But I am not sure if that works:
$ type gsettings
gsettings is aliased to `/usr/bin/gsettings'
gsettings is /home/linuxbrew/....
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bash alias to create folder and move file
I am trying to create a bash alias to do the following:
create a folder (with the current date as the folder name)
move (or copy, either is fine with me) a file from the current folder into the new ...
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Idiomatic setting of nicknames/aliases?
On Unix systems, you have your username, say "johnsmith", and your full name, "John Smith". That's it.
Now, suppose I want to use a nickname or two - something which isn't my ...
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Calling alias with other alias + parameters
i was trying to summerise grep while being able to give another command with parameters but I cannot figure out how to make it work
What I am doing is this
alias pac='sudo pacman'
grp(){
$1 | ...
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Access myqsl client “natively” in a container from the host
I'm looking into adding MySQL monitoring to the zabbix agent and it needs mysql-client for that purpose. I'd like an approach where it accesses the client in the mysql container as if it where ...
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How to alias `kj` to `kill -9 %?`(kill job)
I want use kj 1 for kill -9 %1
I try:
alias kj='kill -9 %'
but I can't use either kj1 or kj 1.
It's there any way to do this?
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Can't create an alias in tcsh shell when trying to sed some string with .*
I'm trying to create this alias in tcsh shell:
alias repeat 'zgrep -i __NCELAB_SNAPSHO \!* | grep -v make | grep -v Flags | sed 's#CODE_COVERAGE_TYPES.*TEST_DONE=1##g''
And getting an error:
alias:...
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Bash expansion behavior
I was playing around with the readline functions shell-expand-line and alias-expand-line.
From the documentation:
shell-expand-line Expand the line as the shell does. This performs
alias and ...
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Cannot ping virtual ip from another server
I am a new member of this community and I am new to linux systems so I apologize in advance if I say something wrong.
I have created a new virtual ip: ifconfig eth1:1 192.168.0.22
I can ping eth1 ...
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alias inside a script returns command not found
Using bash in a Debian system.
bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later &...
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Why should I provide two different paths when creating alias?
When I issue alias --help I get this output:
alias: usage: alias [-p] [name[=value] ... ]
As I understand, all you need to do is to type an alias and provide the actual path to the script file, like ...
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How to create an alias that launches zathura with tabbed
So tabbed outputs it's xid when you run it. How could I put this into an alias dynamically?
I'm looking to do something like:
alias zathura = tabbed -c zathura -e ${tabbed Xid goes here} & disown
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Attempting to add any alias to .bashrc file is always failing
My attempts to add any alias to .bashrc file is always failing. It comes as not found.
Let me explain what I tried.
I opened the .bashrc using the subl and then at last added the words
alias rm = "...
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Why does 'echo “alias g=/home/user/examplescript” >> ~/.bash_aliases' produce this error: “no authorisation”?
When I try this code in Raspbian Buster terminal:
echo "alias g=/home/user/examplescript" >> ~/.bash_aliases
I get the error Authorisation Error. Following code works without problem:
echo "...
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How can I define and use `alias` within `bash -c` with a one-line command?
I am trying to define and use alias within bash -c with a one-line command.
The command:
bash -c "eval $'df'"
works fine, but:
bash -c "eval $'alias df5=df\ndf5 -h'"
doesn't. Why, and how can I ...
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How can I write an `eval` command containing a new line into one line?
Since I need to set and use alias in the same line in bash, I would like to use Hauke Laging's workaround:
eval 'alias df5=df
df5 -h'
(I took df and df5 for the sake of the example. I am aware that ...
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Alias or Function for a Command [duplicate]
Sometimes (or may be all the time) an Alias and Function for a command works the same way. For example, following Alias and Function of Ping Command:
alias Pingoogle='ping -c 3 google.com && ...
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SSH and aliasing
Background
I'm a php developer who has started a new job. The company has numerous docker instances and the ability to spin multiple versions of this up, for example: to check a particular git branch ...
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Change the actual terminal command for executing an application (not just an alias)
I have a directory on my machine, ~/Code. I have an alias, code, that takes me to that directory. I have just installed VS Code, which uses the command code to open. I would love to keep my old alias ...
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My multiple variables in a function do not get expressed as aliases. I think my syntax is faulty
In bashrc, I have this alarm function which can take 3 variables:
a () {
local $1="${1:-3600}"
local $2="${2:-paa}"
local $3="${3:-alarm}"
sleep "$1" && $2 && $3
}
alias ...
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Expand (certain) aliases from within sudo bash function
There are two things I want: 1) I want that if I keep using sudo often that it never asks me for my password by updating my cached credentials every time I type sudo, 2) That I can use (certain) ...
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How do I use spaces in my command to cd to a directory and its sub directories using aliases?
Suppose I am interested in this directory: /home/username/../../../../.....dummy1
And dummy1 has these subfolders:
sub_dummy1
sub_dummy2
that in turn can consist of various directories and so on.
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Issue creating alias with multiple arguments
Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I open ~/.bashrc and I have added some aliases, like alias c=clear or alias h=history. These aliases are working.
Problem is here:
alias ls=ls -lhF --...
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After debian upgrade, npm is not working
I upgraded from Debian 9 to 10, and Emacs from 25 to 26.1. Then, npm was NOT working and missing but node was there.
Then, re-installed npm using:
$ sudo apt-get install npm
npm succesfully ...
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Is it safe to alias mf command?
I routinely type mf instead of mv, and it doesn’t like to quit easily. I understand that mf is a metafont command, whatever that is.
Is it safe to alias mf='mv' so I don’t have to worry about it? ...
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Does mv use an alias by default? [closed]
In the context of shell, much as cp, rm use an alias that prompts to overwrite, does rm use an alias also?
This is usually bypassed by using \cp and \rm for example. Does the same also apply to mv?
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Aliases don't work in interactive zsh
I have a curious problem where my aliases are listed when I type alias, but they are not executable.
Here, I try to alias d to date:
% which alias
alias: shell built-in command
% alias d=/usr/bin/...
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Why do some aliases work in xterm while others don't?
I'm transitioning to a new development environment for work, and I'm new to the xterm terminal and the CentOS operating system.
I'm trying to set up aliases in my .bashrc:
# .bashrc
alias c='clear'
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How to set environment variables automatically?
So I do research in machine learning and use a remote GPU server to do the stuff. What I usually do when I come to work is access the server with an SSH client and run my alias hi command which is:
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Executing alias string command
I wrote a simple script to go through my development project directory and add an alias shortcut for each one:
shopt -s dotglob #Use shopt -u dotglob to exclude hidden directories
find ~/development/*...
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Apache vhost_alias - how to set user per virtualhost?
For context: I'm using a Debian or Ubuntu server with Apache 2.4, PHP 7.2 and a number of other things, to set up a development and testing environment for devs and technicians to use at work.
I've ...
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Does Bash and Zsh have a mode to echo what the alias expands to upon pressing Enter?
For example, if I have a
alias dbmigrate='rails db:migrate'
is there a mode or simple way to configure in Bash and Zsh so that when I type in the shell:
$ dbmigrate # press Enter
it will echo ...
