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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:20:10 +0000

[...] You’ll probably want to do something to make this easier on yourself such as setting up an alias in Linux or maybe another environment variable in [...]

By: Igor

Igor — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:41:18 +0000

thanks much!

By: brockangelo

brockangelo — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:01:28 +0000

sweet – thanks!

By: matlix

matlix — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:52:57 +0000

Another way is to create the file ~/.bash_aliases and add your alias command there. .bashrc should check to see if the file exists with the lines
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
then just type source .bashrc. Slightly tidier.

By: grimfiend

grimfiend — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:09:20 +0000

Disregard, just found my answer….thx

By: grimfiend

grimfiend — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:05:25 +0000

I want to set up an alias that uses multiple commands. Can this be done? If so, how does one go about doing it using the alias command only?

By: Zac

Zac — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:14:39 +0000

Nice article–I could’t remember the syntax for this command, so this we helpful!

Just a quick tip: You can also type the “alias la=”ls -alh” directly into the terminal to create an alias. For example, entering the following command (minus the “user:~$” part) would allow me to enter “la” in place of “ls -alh”:
user:~$ alias la=”ls -alh”

By: hippie

hippie — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:49:45 +0000

@ander you did it wrong then. instead of pico, use nano. Pico is not installed by default.

By: Hailon

Hailon — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:26:58 +0000

@ander Try .bashrc

By: ander

ander — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:16:48 +0000

I tried this with Linux Mint 9, but it had no effect.