How to add an alias to a command in terminal?

Question

By typing a manually specified command in terminal i want to do some.

How could add an alias to a command? Can i do that with the help of the terminal or should i edit some kind of file?

Answer 1

alias new_name='old command'

For creating a permanent alias you've to edit the .bashrc file in youre home dir.

More info here

More .bashrc files here

Answer 2

On the bash command line it is simply a case of typing:

alias my_command="Command to run"

for example to create a short command run a long listing you could do:

alias ll="ls -l"

The quotes are not required if you are not adding switches to the aliased command.

Answer 3

You can either use the alias built-in command in the shell you're using, or you can write a script which does what you want. Assuming you are using bash as the shell (which is the default), you can type man bash and skip down to the ALIASES section, for documentation on aliases in bash.

Answer 4

To learn about aliasing: visit http://www.mediacollege.com/linux/command/alias.html

To make the changes permanent (i.e. to be read everytime you start a shell) add the alias commands you typed in the terminal to the file ~/.bashrc file.

Answer 5

To make permanent changes in (in ubuntu at least, not sure for other distros) you can put your aliases separetely in ~/.bash_aliases