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 have tail -f show colored output
I'd like to be able to tail the output of a server log file that has messages like:
INFO
SEVERE
etc, and if it's SEVERE, show the line in red; if it's INFO, in green. What kind of alias can I setup ...
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In Bash, when to alias, when to script and when to write a function?
Noone should need 10 years for asking this question, like I did. If I were just starting out with Linux, I'd want to know: When to alias, when to script and when to write a function?
Where aliases are ...
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How to prevent side effects when using an alias (e.g. cat aliased to batcat)?
I want to alias cat to batcat. Yet I do not want to break any script on my system that may depend on cat.
How to ensure that it won't break existing scripts?
I am on an Ubuntu machine on a bash ...
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Quick directory navigation in the bash shell
I would like to frequently switch between directories that are in totally unrelated paths, for example /Project/Warnest/docs/ and ~/Dropbox/Projects/ds/test/.
But I don't want to type cd /[full-path]/...
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How to wrap source command in tcsh
I need a solution only for tcsh.
Say I have a source file that sources other files which in their turn can source other files. My goal is to track which files were eventually sourced. One way I can do ...
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How can I temporarily bypass an alias of a keyword in Bash?
If I alias a keyword, I can't figure out how to bypass it.
$ alias if='echo "GOTCHA!"; if'
$ if true; then echo y; fi
GOTCHA!
y
The usual tools for bypassing an alias, like escaping, ...
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'which' vs. 'type -a'
There is a 2022 article by a guy who is a senior developer, and there he has the following alias in his zsh config:
alias which='type -a'
But zsh has which by default, and if we use this which like ...
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Unable to Execute Multiple Alias Commands Simultaneously
I'm encountering an issue where I'm unable to execute multiple alias commands at the same time in my shell environment. For example, when I try to run two alias commands together, only one seems to ...
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Why doesn't bash recognize alias in interactive mode?
How is this possible?
styx@LouSTyx:…$ GCOM "\pushdict now ignores prefix macro."
GCOM : commande introuvable
styx@LouSTyx:…$ type GCOM
GCOM est un alias vers « git commit -a -m »
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Unavailable executable still remains
Please note: This is not a question related to pip or python.
I am trying to make sense of why I see a "permission error" instead of "path not found" error.
I have done many ...
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In a bash alias, how do I run "apt autoremove" automatically after "apt upgrade" only if needed?
I have two alias in my Debian's .bashrc:
alias upd='sudo apt update && apt list --upgradable'
alias upg='sudo apt upgrade'
Then I use upd to update and display all upgradable packages, and ...
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Run a command that is shadowed by an alias
Let's say I have the following alias in bash - alias ls='ls --color=auto' - and I want to call ordinary ls without options. Is the only way to do that is to unalias, do the command and then alias ...
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Why doesn't my Bash script recognize aliases?
In my ~/.bashrc file reside two definitions:
commandA, which is an alias to a longer path
commandB, which is an alias to a Bash script
I want to process the same file with these two commands, so I ...
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Alias for rm does not include file name with @$ [duplicate]
I am trying to create an alias for the rm command in the /root/.bashrc file on a VirtualBox Redhat VM (running RHEL 9). I cannot get it to work properly. This is an excerpt of my .bashrc file:
alias ...
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Bash profile seems not to be loaded when -c option is present
There are a fair bit of similar questions, but I can't find spec for this particular case.
I'm writing a shell script to verify bash configuration. For exmaple, I add test_alias to ~/.bashrc, which is ...
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