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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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Show only hidden files (dot files) in ls alias
Either make the inner pair of quotes double quotes:
alias hidden='ls -a | grep "^\."'
Or make the outer pair of quotes double quotes:
alias hidden="ls -a | grep '^\.'" … Or make all quotes double quotes and escape the inner pair:
alias hidden="ls -a | grep \"^\.\""
Or make it a function, so you can pass some arguments when calling:
hidden() { ls -a "$@" | grep '^\ …
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Quick directory navigation in the bash shell
There is a shell variable CDPATH in bash and ksh and cdpath in zsh:
CDPATH The search path for the cd command. This is a colon-separated
list of directories in which the shell looks for …
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