Questions tagged [alias]
In shells, an alias is an alternate name for a command. For instance, "ll" is an alias for "ls -l" on many systems.
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Use shell command execution inside common alias? [duplicate]
I've got an idea that will help me use less more often, tho my alias isn't working right.
Can something like the following work for the given input?
input: $ cles somefile
with: alias cles="sh -c '...
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How can i fix command alias and export not found? [on hold]
Command '’export' not found, did you mean:
command 'mexport' from deb mblaze
Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
Command '’alias' not found, did you mean:
command '0alias' from deb 0install-...
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Creating a hotkey for an alias
I want to bind a specific cksfv command to a key so that this command is applied for the current folder. So I've created an alias for the cksfv command in the ~/.bashrc:
alias cksfv='cksfv -f *.sfv'
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Open Firefox developer edition with ALT+F2
I recently installed Firefox developer edition following this tutorial and I want to start Firefox by pressing Alt+F2 and writing firefox in there. In terminal I added an alias,
firefox=/opt/firefox/...
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How to configure auto completion on docker-compose alias
I installed docker-compose, set up auto completion which works as its supposed to. However it does not work on aliases.
Any ideas how to solve this?
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alias not working inside bash shell script
When I search for .bashrc files in my system I get:
/etc/bash.bashrc
/etc/skel/.bashrc
/root/.bashrc
/usr/share/base-files/dot.bashrc
I changed:
/etc/bash.bashrc
/root/.bashrc
I added the alias....
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Converting a linux alias to a desktop launcher [duplicate]
I would like to know how to convert the following simple alias to a desktop launcher:
cat ~/info1.txt
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calling ssh alias with sshc strange character appear on remote host
when calling via ssh alias a remote host, strange characters appear
^[[6;3~fhem@UB9:~$ ;3~
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
in .bashrc
### add to .bash_aliases, for differentiating ...
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Which command and alias for pip3.7
I created the following alias to run pip3.7 everytime I use pip command:
pip='pip3.7'
Now, bash says:
pip -V pip 18.1 from /home/uname/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip (python 3.7)
but, the ...
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Creating alias- proper syntax
Can anyone tell me if the following syntax is correct? I'm prepending my PATH variable then launching houdini
alias houdini_run='pathold=$PATH; PATH=/home/jim/yt-conda/bin:/home/jim/yt-conda/sbin; /...
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Prevent alias with `find` from running at login
How do I make an alias in .bashrc with sub-commands?
Right now I have:
alias pngc="for file in \`find \$1 -name \"*.png\"\`; do pngcrush -brute \"\$file\" temp.png; mv -f temp.png \$file; done"
If ...
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Use of network alias (in /etc/network/interfaces) causes problems when moving to another network
I use dhcp for my network connection but I need a static ip that is in the same address pool than the ip of a device I need to connect in the LAN. For this I have set up a network alias in /etc/...
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Multi line alias in bash
I have the following script. It's a simple test case where a is any string value and b is supposed to be a path.
#!/bin/bash
alias jo "\
echo "please enter values "\
read a \
read -e b \
echo "My ...
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Error while executing read prompt in csh and converting to multiline alias
Hey everyone i have this issue where i have a sample program in csh (i know its not the best language to use for scripting but i dont have an option here) its as foll:
#!/bin/csh
echo 'please ...
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Unable to use variables in alias in cshell
This is a sample straight forward program. I am using C-shell and want a solution for this environment itself. Following this code sample:
set FILENAME = "\!:2"
alias jo 'echo this is my \!:1 file ...
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how to change alias anydesk
I downloaded and installed anydesk (free licence) in Ubuntu 18.04:
sudo dpkg -i anydesk_2.9.6-1_amd64.deb
But it does not allow me to change the "alias" (change the number to a custom alias, like e....
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How to alias the right way a dpkg-query command (with pipe)?
I'm adding this alias to .bashrc (in one line of course), but unfortunately, this doesn't work:
alias lspkg="dpkg-query -W -f='${db:Status-Abbrev}\t${binary:Package} - ${binary:Summary}\n'
| awk -F'\...
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Create multiple shell aliases at once
I want to insert into alias different possible variants of spelling, for example, cat command. Can I do it using some symbol for 'or' or should it be on a new line?
alias at|cart|cst '/bin/cat'
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What command is the alias ll for?
Can someone tell me what terminal command the alias ll is for? All I can find online is many people saying that it is an alias for ls -l or ls -la or ls -ltr. But that's simply wrong. The result looks ...
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use awk inside an alias [duplicate]
I have this awk command to increment a number inside a file:
awk -F"." '{$4=$4<=99?$4+1:0;print}' OFS="." post_all/version.ini > tmp && mv tmp post_all/version.ini
This works fine from ...
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alias to take a parameter and exit after execution
In my ~/.bashrc, I have an alias called yy as follows
alias yy="youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]'"
But I often run it this way
yy <url list> && exit
I would like ...
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Set permanent command shortcut in terminal to cd to Downloads [duplicate]
I wrote a new text file in /bin named ram which contains:
watch -n 1 free -h
and a file sen:
watch -n 1 sensors
in the same folder, in order to avoid typing
watch blahblahblah...
every time.
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Why is my alias not working in Zsh?
I have added my alias to ~/.aliases file and the file right now is like this:
alias gss="git status"
alias gl="git log"
alias pa="php artisan"
alias reload=". ~/.zshrc && echo 'ZSH config ...
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How do I disable the 'open' command, knowing that it is just a link to the 'openvt' binary?
I'd like users to be able to install my command line tool...
https://github.com/occam-proof-assistant/Open-CLI
...globally and run it from the terminal by typing open. The NodeJS package manager, ...
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bash_aliases doesn't work [duplicate]
I created the file ~/.bash_aliases within these lines:
# my alias here
eclipse="eclipse</dev/null &>/dev/null &"
okular="okular</dev/null &>/dev/null &"
libre="...
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setting a generic alias results in doing nothing at all
I want to create an alias, that can be defined on any command and concats | lolcat to it. So far I googled myself to
alias MyCommandName='f(){"$@" | lolcat; unset -f f};f'
but when I test it with ...
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Terminal profile registering aliases [duplicate]
I'm trying to use the gnome-terminal profiles to cd to a given directory and register some aliases just after the terminal opens.
I have created a script:
~/Document/project1/ops-setup.sh
#!/bin/...
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alias for command-line options not recognized
I have few flags I want to add to my gcc compilation, so I aliased them as
alias gcc_flags='-std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -Wextra -Wconversion'
and tried to compile like this:
$ gcc gcc_flags file_name....
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Output unix time in alias
I'm running an online store where I can put a variable versiontag to includes JS and CSS as a cachebuster. I. e.
styles.css?v2018_01
Wherein the 2018_01 is the version tag. Now I also have a CLI ...
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Where is the alias for ll defined
I often find myself using ll which is an alias.
$ type ll
ll is an alias for ls -lh
I always wondered where this was defined as it works both on bash, zsh but not on sh:
# THIS IS SH
$ ll
sh: 1: ll:...
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Alias in terminal no longer works in 17.10 [duplicate]
I must have done something to my environment in Ubuntu 17.10 as alias in the terminal no longer works. Probably/Maybe after a apt-get autoremove (I guess).
Open a terminal and running echo $shell ...
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Alias not working as intended in .bashrc, while command does
If I execute the following through the shell, it works as intended, i.e. it finds the last modified file and outputs it using cat:
aux="$(find /home/w/Dropbox/notes/ -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | ...
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Aliases execution by script fails while manual alias execution succeeds without problem [duplicate]
I have executed a remote Bash script bash <(curl -s URL/script.sh | tr -d '\r') that does the following 3 actions:
Downloads another script with a list of aliases (aliases.sh) to current dir.
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Add multiple aliases to /etc/bash.bashrc aliases if they aren't already there
This is how I add multiple aliases to /etc/bash.bashrc:
cat <<-"BASHRC" >> /etc/bash.bashrc
alias rss="/etc/init.d/php*-fpm restart && systemctl restart nginx.service"
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How can I make a Bash alias that takes user input?
I have a Bash alias for sending a command to my server like:
alias ssh=sshpass -p "Passw0rd!" ssh -p 9999 -q -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no user@192.168.1.15 "some_command"
but I want to be able to ...
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Alias experiment (re-adding ll to Ubuntu)
I also use Debian 9.3 and there you don't have ll (lowercase LL) Out Of Box (OOB). You have to create it yourself by adding it to one of the .rc files (
alias ll="ls -la").
In Ubuntu of course, you ...
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Refresh aliases without reboot?
After adding a new alias to /etc/bash.bashrc I couldn't use the alias unless I've rebooted via executing reboot.
I would prefer not to use reboot is because it's annoying to logout, wait 2-4 seconds, ...
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Bash alias doesn't work, identical command does
I have created a bash command to pass each .mp3 file in a folder to a commandline media player, omxplayer. It also sets the player's volume and throws away the feedback from the player:
for i in *....
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Suggestions on how this .bashrc backup script can be improved?
alias isbashrcmodf='cmp -s "/home/user/.experimental/bc/$(ls /home/user/.experimental/bc -Art | tail -n 1)" "/home/user/.bashrc"'
alias bashrcbak='cp ~/.bashrc ~/.experimental/bc/.bashrc$(date +-%y-%m-...
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How to alias pip to pip3 while using sudo for a specific user?
I have python2 and python3 both installed on Ubuntu 16.04, and use python3 primarily. I have both pip and python aliased to pip3 and python3, respectively, in my user's .bashrc.
However, I had always ...
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alias or nano -B not working using sudo
I have an alias set up
alias nano='nano -B'
in order to always make backups on change of files.
I did this in both /home/<USER>/.bashrc and in /root/.bashrc.
It works if I use
nano ...
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How to make URL alias
I am using subversuin to manage my project files. One thing is annoying for me. Every time I want to check out my repo I need to use "svn co "URL_TO_MY_REPOSITORY" command. The ULR is very long. I ...
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Alias config is not loaded correctly
This is my alias configuration in Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
root@Ubuntu:/# cat /etc/.bash_aliases
alias i='ifconfig | grep eth -A 1'
alias l='ls -lh'
root@Ubuntu:/#
root@Ubuntu:/# cat /etc/bash.bashrc
###...
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date command not resolving properly in bash alias
I'm trying to set up a way for me to just type newjournal, and a new journal entry named year-month-date-time.txt is created in a year subdirectory in ~/documents/journals.
I've got it set up as an ...
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Setting up alias for specific folder for specific command [duplicate]
I have an CLI app which works by navigating to the dir using cd and then executing program 2fa, code
The problem is that those commands works only if Im on that specific folder.
How I can make a ...
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how to make the changes to source .profile permanent [duplicate]
I am following the following details from another question on this site
You can add an alias to the command by editing the file .profile in your home directory:
gedit $HOME/.profile
and ...
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Why does this bash script for apt upgrade not actually run in the background? [duplicate]
I am trying to create an alias/bash script that will use apt to fully upgrade all applications on my computer as a background process.
But for some reason, later parts of the standard out appear to ...
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How can I use `&` in an alias [duplicate]
I want to add an alias for nedit editor
alias ne='nedit'
or
alias ne='nedit $1'
works fine
but i want to add & at its end:
alias ne='nedit $1 &'
so that if i do
ne filename
It ...
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How to find aliases?
Where can I find a list/file of all aliases created in Ubuntu 17.04?
I mean shortcuts for commands most frequently used and more.
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Postfix alias not working
I have postfix to send mail using gmail. I have aliases set but things aren't working right
if I send mail to someone at gmail.com it works
crontab with MAILTO=root sends mail via gmail relay to ...
