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Save Linux aliases for later usage
After repeating an Arch Linux installation for several times I started to wonder whether I could make things easier for me in the future by taking some general commands that I am bound to use again ...
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Create an case insensitive apache alias
I am currently using Apache 2.4.4. Now, the problem is that when I am creating alias like
Alias /mysite "D:/MySite"
it doesn't work for http://127.0.0.1/MySite. So how can I make it case ...
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How to create aliases in windows [duplicate]
In Linux I can do this :
ln -s /tmp/mydocs /home/user/docs/
it will create alias to /home/user/docs/ and I can access to docs with cd /tmp/mydocs/
In windows :
I have this directory ...
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How to place a folder into a variable location (~/Library/Application Support) and then make an alias to that folder quickly?
Would it be at all possible to do the following:
Place an entire folder within the ~/Library/Application Support folder on a Mac.
Make an alias on the desktop to a link inside that folder.
I'm ...
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How enter in folder with one command?
I work a lot in two folders:
/home/valter/Dropbox/Development/git/valter
/home/valter/Dropbox/Development/git/company
I would like to create command like:
$valter
and enter in ...
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Setting an alias only for current user in Unix
I want to create a Unix alias, that allows me for example to type l for ls -l.
Nevertheless, I do not want to modify the file /etc/bash.bashrc as that one applies to all users I believe.
How can I ...
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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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alias for multiple sequential commands?
How do I create an alias c that will cd and then immediately ls?
alias c='cd; ls'
Is there some kind of way to insert a special variable that represents the input? Or is that not the way that alias ...
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Error in url alias in lighttpd
I have this configuration:
alias.url = (
"/acruz/" => "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/acruz/",
"/jvangemeren/" => "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/jvangemeren",
"/doceno/" => ...
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How to make an alias and work in sh for all users (not in bash)?
My question maybe is silly, but how can I make an alias so as to work
in sh for all users?
I know that I can put an alias, let say this one:
alias ls='ls -l'
in /etc/bash.bashrc so as to work in ...
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make an alias to move files to a tmp directory
I am trying to create an alias to move files and directories to the tmp directory. This is what I've tried:
alias rm='/bin/mv *.* /tmp'
The problem is that when I type rm filename, I get an error ...
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Multiple drupal installations on apache work with their own DNS entries but not with Alias
So my localhost server has never had a problem because I've never been developing with other people on multiple websites.
Now, however, accessing a secondary site via an Alias is running into a ...
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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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PHP does not work on alias (XAMPP)
I trying to make alias on my local machine with XAMPP for my PHP project.
I added follow in httpd.conf:
Include "conf/alias/*"
And make two files for aliases, one of them is like:
Alias /aiuu ...
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How to make an alias to a part of a block device
Is it possible to make a part of a block device to be seen as a separate block device (in a similar way block 'devices' are created for partitions)? Unfortunately, I can't mount it through loop device ...
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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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Can I make a custom “directory alias” like '~' in bash?
In bash I can go to my home directory with cd ~ and actually refer to my home directory with any command with ~.
Can I make new, custom "directory aliases" (?) to refer to other directories? ...
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Running all items in a user defined FARR alias group
I've been using FARR 2.203.01. I created a group (named 'compuicreate') in FARR with the following list of programs :
1)"C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc"
2)"F:\@HOMEWORK\THESIS\UI ...
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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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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 ...
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How do I create a PowerShell alias (or function) that contains an option?
I'm learning PowerShell, so I'm doing stuff like this a lot:
Get-Command | Out-String -Stream | ss child
(ss is an alias for select-string).
I'm getting tired of typing Out-string -Stream all the ...
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Aliases in Dropbox [closed]
If an alias of a Dropbox file is placed at another location within Dropbox, will other users be able to see and work with the alias?
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I deleted my aliases file, but my aliases are still in my bash session - how can I recover them?
I had a ton of aliases defined and I use them all the time. I have a terminal session open now in which all the aliases are valid and working. However, the .bash_aliases file in which they were ...
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Gnome terminal new tab behavior
I have an alias for cd command that does some additional logic before running actual cd (if you want the details, it activates virtualenv if it finds it in the directory). But when I open a new tab, ...
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Under Ubuntu, how can I place a shell alias command that will be global to everyone?
Under Ubuntu 9.10, where can I place an alias command that will be valid to all users, root or otherwise, and that will work with a shell under GNOME as well as an ssh session and plain console login ...
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Trying to create bash function which collects and quotes all arguments, but it doesn't work if args contain brackets or single quotes
I saw the following shortcut for "git commit" suggested somewhere:
function gc {
git commit -m "$*"
}
This is supposed to allow you to write the commit message inline in the shell, without quotes ...
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How can I automate my usage of three VM machines with the same alias?
How do I automate my usage of three VM machines which require me to add a IP aliased to a name in my HOSTS file. I upload code to the server of choice and then I go to the address http:/ / ...
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how to edit aliases
I just started looking into aliases and I already created a couple aliases before reading how to write alias commands into files so you can easily edit them. If you just directly run the command ...
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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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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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Can I have two different users in Windows XP to use the same local profile (user alias)
I need to have two different userIds that map to the same local profile. What I really need is to have to users that are the same one.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
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Changing the program name displaying on Konsole, using an alias
I have an alias for irssi:alias irssi="screen irssi. When I am running irssi in Konsole, the tab name shows up as "screen". Is there a way to make it display as "irssi"? My tab format on Konsole is: ...
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Alias a protocol to a url
I currently work in an organisation which is mostly Windows users but there are some including myself using Linux here.
We have a shared storage drive which we use for sharing files between us and I ...
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How do I make a bash alias that outputs file names in a format I can pipe to vim?
When rebasing with git, I'm interested to open the files that have merge conflicts.
I can do this with:
vi `git diff --name-status --diff-filter=U | awk '{print $2}'`
but if I alias that:
alias ...
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OS X: is there an application that can check for broken aliases in Finder?
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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mac finder - how to open alias in a new finder window
I am doing a video project in which I created a folder with a bunch of aliases to files on various spots on my hard drive, so that I could have references to those files all stored in one location but ...
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Vim Ignores Aliases
If I map a command in vim using something like
map <f4> :! pdflatex %<cr>
Vim will ignore my alias for pdflatex (something like alias pdflatex='pdflatex --temp-dir=something'). Is it ...
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Dovecot/Postfix-mysql e-mail Aliases are not correctly forwarded
I recently set up Dovecot/postfix-mysql on my Debian Squeeze Server and I have a bit of a problem.
When ever I send a email to an alias (foobar@mydomain.com forwarded to foobar@gmail.com for example) ...
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Disabling sudo halt
It's happened to me a few times now, that I want to shut down my own computer, grab the next best terminal (always have two dozen of them floating around), and type sudo halt, only to realize I've ...
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System-level bash/zsh alias blacklist
Is there a blacklist feature/functionality in bash/zsh to prevent specified commands and such from being overridden with an alias?
Specifically - is there something that can be set system-level in a ...
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How to create alias for - minus sign
I want to map the - to cd -
I've tried escaping it, w/ and w/o single/double quotes but neither of them seems to work.
alias \-='cd -' or alias '-'='cd -'
=>
bash: alias: -=: invalid option
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Command aliases in DOS?
How can I make command aliases in DOS like I would with bash?
I found out about doskey in a forum thread, so I can do something like:
doskey ls=dir /b
...and now the command ls acts a little more ...
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MSYS: alias resets upon restarting MSYS console
Every time I reopen the MSYS console (not cmd.exe) I find that the aliases that I have added to the shell are cleared. How can I save my aliases so that I do not to reenter them on every use?
For ...
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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 do I create a symbolic link in Mac OSX?
I have a .sh file that I need to create a symbolic link. I would like to be able to access the file using the Terminal.
The command I use is:
ln -s /path/roo.sh /usr/bin/roo
But when I type roo, ...
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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 ...
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Linux: How to automatically detect display and set up default editor accordingly
I am relatively new to linux. I am connecting to a remote linux machine sometimes via telnet and sometimes via NX client for windows. When I connect via telent I would like the default editor to be ...
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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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Ubuntu 10.04 Windows2003 adding a route for GPO assignment
I want the PC's that receive IP from my Ubuntu DHCP3-server to be able to retrieve the GPOs that are on my windows 2003 server.
I'm using virtualbox and 3 virtual machines:
1 windows 2003 server ...
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Linux dynamic alias
I am very new to Linux. I just found the alias command which is very useful as I quite often have to dig through log files
So I need to regularly open text files
they are generally stored in the ...
