Questions tagged [alias]
In computing, an alias is an alternate name for an object, such as a variable, file or device.
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Setting up an alias for SSH command in Windows PowerShell
In Windows PowerShell:
>ssh -i \Path\To\key.pem [email protected] Works like a champ.
>Set-alias sshalias "ssh -i \Path\To\key.pem [email protected]" saves the alias with no errors.
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ssh: add "-X" to default options
How do I add "-X" into my ssh default option? i.e., when I type ssh A.B.C.D, it should really do ssh -X A.B.C.D
I can alias it, but is there a more "elegant" solution to do that in .ssh/config file?
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How to pipe output of certain commands to a pager with zsh?
I am frequently working with subversion in console using its client svn. One of common tasks is viewing svn log; however its output is usually pretty massive despite of --limit option. I would like to ...
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Set PowerShell Aliases with a script
I created a PowerShell script to set aliases for a PowerShell session. When I run the script and try the alias, I get the error saying that the alias isn't recongized. How can I use the aliases that ...
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Aliases with numerical names
I just installed Oh My ZSH on my Mac. Everything is working great, except I can't define aliases with numerical names.
If I execute
alias 5="cd ~/Projects/Projectname/"
5
I get the following error ...
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Is there a aliases file for sSMTP?
I installed sSMTP for sending emails from command line.
I want to create some alias for cron jobs:
$ sudo vim /etc/aliases
# append this line at the end
myname: root
$ newaliases
newaliases:...
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Create an alias to a samba share from the command line
I'm currently wanting to deploy a setup to around 300 Macs. I have all of it scripted and ready to deploy, excepting that I'm having trouble creating a working alias to a samba share from the command ...
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How to alias a hostname?
Is it possible to keep a network alias - without specifying the IP address in the hosts file? For instance, I have abcd.efgh.com but want abcd -> abcd.efgh.com so that ping and ssh work as they ...
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Space in doskey/alias for windows?
I try to run Laravel's Artisan command inside the (docker) container by defining a doskey alias.
My idea was:
php artisan=docker-compose exec apache php artisan $1
However it does not allow me to ...
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How to make bash alias invocation conditional on PWD?
I currently have this alias:
alias cmakerel='cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -Wno-dev ../../ && make -j4'
Essentially, it will call cmake to do an out-of-source build from PWD. It works ...
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How do I close an OS X application from the command line using a alias defined in my .bash_profile?
I found the following shell script that can be used to tell an OS X application to quit:
#!/bin/sh
echo | osascript <<EOF
tell application "$*"
quit
end tell
EOF
I have several simple alias ...
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How to save user made zsh shell functions and aliases
Shell beginner here! I'd like to create aliases and functions in zsh shell to speed up my workflow. For example:
tw() { open -a //Applications/Textwrangler.app "$*"; }
The function itself works, but ...
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Alias defined in .bashrc not working after pipe
I'm stuck with the following problem.
I've defined an alias in .bashrc (and .bash_profile):
alias echo2="echo"
This works well:
$ echo2 "test"
test
However, if I try to use it after a redirect, ...
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How to set alias for python3 on OSX
I'm trying to set an alias for python3 so I can run it with python.
Here's my current .bash_profile
# Setting PATH for Python 3.6
# The original version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/...
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What does "network" mean in the /etc/network/interfaces file?
In Linux, to define aliases, we have to modify /etc/network/interfaces..
Something like this:
auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
address 192.168.1.60
netmask 255.255.255.0
network x.x.x.x
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Do aliases slow down a shell's start?
Sometimes my shell (zsh) takes longer to start than usual (I open the terminal, and it hangs a bit until I can input commands).
I have a few aliases on my .zshrc (well, actually they're in a ...
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How to create shortcut command in Mac
I would like to a shortcut command in Mac as I frequently call commands that are a bit long in Terminal. How can I do that?
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Define custom aliases for outlook contacts
I have a close coworker whom I email almost daily. Let's call her "Leigh Wilson". The global address book at my company has several other people with the first name "Leigh" and/or the last name "...
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error when using commandline as a bash alias on linux
I want to save the following commandline sequence as a bash alias:
grep `date '+%d/%b/%Y'` access.logs | egrep 2765330645ae47d292c9ceac725d744e.py |awk '{print $1, $4, $5, $7, $8, $9, $10}' | sort |...
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Echoing aliases into a .bashrc file
I want to echo an alias straight into my .bashrc file. Here is what I am using:
echo alias cdear='cd | clear' >> .bashrc
However, the new line in .bashrc does not contain the quote marks.
I ...
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How to undo alias, PATH=$PATH:./Test - (Unix)
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In a terminal when we make an alias for any command line,the life of that alias is as long as the terminal is open.
alias new_command=old_command
example: alias dog=cat
But can we explicitly ...
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Sending email from domain name address
hey, I've just bought a domain name and would like to send emails from [email protected]. I can use an alias from my hotmail/gmail account, but the recipient sometimes sees it as
"[email protected] on ...
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Where are aliases set in CentOS?
There is a typo which causes an error message upon logon (someone typed lias instead of alias). I have checked /etc/bashrc as well as ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile as well as ~/.bash_profile for ...
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Stop sending mail to myself when choosing Reply All in Outlook
My company has set up each mail account with serveral aliases. My default account is [email protected]. I also have:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
The ...
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Can I change the "From" name and address without going into Mail.app's preferences?
Can I somehow add an editable "From" field to Mail.app, a bit like Virtual Identity for Thunderbird, just like I could change the "Reply To" address on the fly?
In Mail.app, one can set up multiple ...
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Windows 10 App Aliases not working
I have a number of different apps installed on my Windows 10 computer that use the App Execution Aliases feature (Settings -> Apps and Features -> App Execution Aliases). However, with the ...
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How can I make "and" be a working alias for && in Bash?
I want to be able to use and instead of && in Bash.
I tried alias and=&& but the behavior is not the same.
steven% echo 'hi' && echo 'bi' (git)-[yako.botrank-rate-limit-...
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Screen does not read /etc/profile.d on startup
Whenever I start screen, my alias definitions in /etc/profile.d are missing within screen.
How can I make screen read/source all files in /etc/profile.d/ on startup?
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How do I handle multiple quotes in an alias (for bash or zsh)
I am using zsh, and I am trying to use python as a simple calculator. I'm very familiar with python, but can't seem to get the alias (or function) to work properly.
So far I've got:
pycalc() {
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Dynamically creating aliases in PowerShell
I'd like to create some aliases dynamically but I can't get my code to work. Here's the code:
# Drives
$drives = ("a","b","c","d","e")
foreach ($drive in $drives) {
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How to create domain "alias" for entire url?
I have set up a DNS server for local use in a LAN. This server can resolve IP addresses, so when I ping mypc.company I get a successful reply from the IP address 192.168.1.34.
Problem
I have ...
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In MacOS X is there a way to create a shortcut to a folder on a readonly drive?
I have a partitioned drive with a different OS on my Mac. I can access this drive in readonly mode, but not write mode.
There is a folder on this partition drive that I often open, and therefore I ...
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Powershell - How can I locate where Aliases and Functions are defined?
Background
At some point in time, I know I created a file that defines some functions and assigns aliases to them. These are available in all powershell instances.
The problem is, I can't for my life ...
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Create aliases dynamically
I want to create aliases based on a command, its subcommands and its options. I'd like the alias to be the acronym of those components.
This is simpler to explain with the real example:
alias mc="...
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How to alias a directory change in Powershell?
Why does Set-Alias foo "cd C:\foo\bar\xyz\asdf\etc" not work?
foo
-> invalid format
How to do this correctly?
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How do I force an application to recognise two names for a disk drive?
I have an extensive image database (3.25GB metadata, 90K images) held in a legacy product (idImager V5). This in turn utilises SQL Server 2005 as the underlying DBMS.
Over time, I have been adding ...
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Is there an OSX/macOS CLI command for creating a Finder Alias?
For clarification on the ambiguous word ALIAS in this question.
While using Finder (of OSX/MacOS) for generic file operations, and secondary-clicking on a file or folder, a pop-up menu (some refer to ...
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OS X: is there an application that can check for broken aliases in Finder? [closed]
I use a lot of aliases in my file system. Many original documents are placed in global repositories and I access them by aliases grouped in "tag" folders. Therefore, when I need to delete such a ...
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Command to search programs in Linux
Do you have any easy idea to define some alias in .bashrc for finding some command that you want to search (when you forgot its name) in your machine, visiting all "bin" directories, maybe using regex?...
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bash alias for "cd directory; ls"
How do I create BASH alias for:
I type in cdd directory and what that does is cd directory and then ls?
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How can I add password of user as alias in bashrc file?
I have created alias for username and it works fine
alias yb="ssh name@hostname"
It works fine, but I also want to create alias for password, Can anyone help how can I do this?
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Syncing aliases via Dropbox and having them work on both Macs
I'm currently syncing my Desktop folder between two Macs using Dropbox. The Desktop folder in my Mac's user folder is an alias to the folder in my Dropbox. This works fine.
On one Mac, I created an ...
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Quick Mac OS X shut-down icon
How would I create an icon on my Mac OS X desktop, to do a "shut down"?
(With... or without... the "are you sure" verification.)
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how to put my arguments into a Bash alias command?
i usually have the following simple alias in my bashrc:
alias g="grep --color=always --exclude-dir=\*.svn\*"
but now i have to work on systems that only have GNU grep 2.5, hence no --exclude-dir ...
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Alias options in zsh
When using the zsh alias command, what does the -s flag do (for example, lines 83-87 of oh-my-zsh's common-alias plugin?
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Is there a way to tell the shell (zsh preferably) about a command?
I defined an alias:
alias school="cd ~/School/3BaFys/"
to quickly go to the folder 3BaFys which contains all of the directories I need this year.
Is there a way to tell zsh that when I do:
$school ...
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How does \cp work?
I know that if you have some alias with the name cp, you can bypass it using \cp.
Is this unix syntax? Are there any other uses of this syntax?
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Make :Wq equivalent to :wq in vim
I'm always typing :Wq when I mean :wq. Is there a way to alias :Wq=':wq' in vim?
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How to write alias to use first parameter or * if parameter is blank?
I want to write an alias command for 'ls', so that if I pass in a parameter, then the alias will use it, but if I do not, then it would use '*' instead. This is the alias I have today:
alias lsd='ls -...
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Create aliases in PowerShell
I want to create a permanent alias in PowerShell for all executables located within Cygwin's bin directory:
C:\Cygwin64\bin
I can do it for individual executable like grep via:
Set-Alias grep "...
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