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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bash_aliases are not working in Ubuntu run (Alt+F2) dialog
bash_aliases are not working in Ubuntu run (Alt+F2) dialog. It shows a "Command not found" error.
But it works perfectly in Terminal.
How can I make it working in run command box?
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“which alias” and “whereis alias” doesn't return anything [duplicate]
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04. I am unable to find the alias command. When I enter which alias I get nothing back. Same with whereis alias.
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Terminal shortcut to a sequence of keys
I often need to restart programs in several terminals while testing with: ctrl+C + arrow up + enter.
How can I make a shortcut for this sequence: ctrl+C + arrow_up + enter?
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
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trying to make bash alias on mac
I am trying to follow this explanation of how to make an alias and made the following .bashrc file in my home directory. Here it is:
# .bashrc
# User specific aliases and functions
alias py='python3'...
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How To Alias Conditional-Chained Commands with Env Vars and Directory Stack? [duplicate]
I enjoy using pushd and popd to navigate, but I also want a "swapd" that swaps the current directory and the next directory on top of the directory stack (dirs). With swapd, frequently swapping ...
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sSMTP, mail, aliases
I setup ssmtp to send email messages from my Ubuntu server to an external email address.
Using the mail command of the mailutils package, I am able to receive emails from my server sent via :
$echo ...
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line 5: alias: python: not found [duplicate]
This is the problem I face when I boot my laptop.
Error found when loading /home/pulkit/.profile
/home/pulkit/.bashrc: line 5: alias: python: not found
/home/pulkit/.bashrc: line 5: alias: =: not ...
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Aliasing with reserved keyword or command alias? (Overwriting)
Is it possible to make an alias with a name that is already reserved as a keyword/command in Linux and Ubuntu?
If I alias passwd or chpasswd with the same name but use additional parameters so that ...
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Alias for “echo $?” doesn't work
I am trying to set alias for echo $? which returns exit status of the most recently executed command. I've put alias status="echo $?" in ~/.bashrc. But it's not working, it's always returning 0.
user@...
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ZSH Alias with Multiple Commands giving “command not found”
I am using this series of commands to build and run a docker container.
The commands work when combined with && and give output like this:
> docker stop $(docker ps -a -q --filter ...
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Assign Semi Path to a variable
How can i assign only the first 4 words of a path to a variable
for example:
my current working directory is /home/Foo/Documents/Programs/ShellScripts/Butler
and i want assign a variable with path ...
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Alias for BASH integer calculator
My .bash_aliases file is populated with single-letter aliases (such as o for octave-cli and r for sudo reboot.
For a while I've been wanting to implement BASH's built-in calculator to do quick ...
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Alias for all users
I created a this file: /etc/profile.d/pycharm_alias.sh
startPyCharm() {...
}
alias py=startPyCharm
I rebooted the PC, but then the alias is not available:
===> alias
...empty
If I login to ...
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alias updt='sudo apt update -y && sudo apt full-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y' … What could go wrong?
I currently use this handy alias I call "updt" on a daily basis in the following manner:
alias updt='sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y'
I was wondering if anything could possibly go ...
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When making an alias; quatation marks, apostrophes or semicolons can prevent the command to work properly?
I have a file called .bash_aliases where I keep my first (and only one untill now) alias witch work properly, but when I tried to create a new one the terminal failed to recognize the command line, I ...
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Alias to open last file edited in Vim
I am running Ubuntu 19.10, and I am trying to alias the command "vv" to open the last edited file in Vim. Below is my results from running the command 'alias'.
~/Documents/code$ alias
alias alert='...
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Ubuntu VPS 18.04 server Apache2 Domain Alias
I hope someone can help me some. I believe this is an easy problem. I currently have a VPS running ubnuntu 18.04 server and Apache2 . I have prestashop installed and trying to configure the multi ...
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Command not found error after trying to install mgltools on WSL
I am working on Ubuntu windows application. I want to use a tool and I have downloaded the file and install it is in /usr/local/bin. I want to access the tool from anywhere and for that I have write ...
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How do I use older gcc on Ubuntu for one particular build without affecting the system?
On Ubuntu 19.04, I have to build a project that requires an older gcc version that one installed in my system. For certain reasons, I cannot modify makefiles; during the build, gcc command must invoke ...
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SSH conection problem after write an invalid alias
I've made a new alias in the remote machine /.bashrc, since I did it and I close the session I just can't log in again using the shh protocol. As you can see in the code, when I try to log in, the ...
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Alias to open a graphical Program (nautilus) opens it in Terminal too
When I type nautilus ., it will open the current directory in Nautilus only outside of the terminal, and I can go on with whatever I want to keep doing in the terminal, without having to cancel the ...
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Open new Chrome tab into an existing window from terminal?
i have created the alias: alias chrome="google-chrome &" but even if Chrome is already open it still opens a new window. Is there anyway to just create a new tab in the existing window if it's ...
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“syntax error near unexpected token” after editing .bashrc
I'm trying to access the clipboard but when I input source ~/.bashrc in the terminal I get this error:
bash: /home/taran/.bashrc: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token ('
bash: /home/taran/....
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Should I put an alias in .bashrc or .profile?
I want the following alias to be available each time I open a shell:
export ZONE="us-eastern1-c"
export INSTANCE_NAME="myInstance"
alias gc='gcloud compute ssh --zone=$ZONE jupyter@$INSTANCE_NAME -- -...
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open new terminal results in editing bash_aliases file
I got my git aliases in my .bash_aliases file. Since yesterday, when I want to add alias like alias gpuo='git push --set-upstream origin'. First, he doesn't find it and secondly, he open ups this file ...
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Adding one variable into multiple parts of an alias? alias nd='mkdir $1' works but cannot add anything after, why? [duplicate]
I have the alias
alias moveit='mkdir $1 && find -name "*$1*" -type f -exec mv -t ~/$1 {} +'
But I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I'm trying to ...
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How to assign an input parameter for a function including awk?
I am making some shortcuts for my account in a computation cluster. When I submit a job, the system assigns a job-ID (JOBID) to my calculation. To list all my calculations, I made an alias
alias j="...
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How to set a variable in an alias for a number of directories?
I'm working in a large computing cluster and when I submit a job, the system assign an ID for the job and creates a file with that ID for the calculation. The directory path is too long, so I want to ...
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Alias doesn't work when I expect it to, works when I don't [duplicate]
I have an "installer" script that installs a couple scripts and a directory for them. This works as expected. In the middle of my script I also have an alias I inject into the local .bashrc so that ...
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How do I create alias for AWS or create SSH config file for connecting Amazon using SSH?
I'm trying to create an alias for Amazon AWS. I have tried
alias amazon="ssh -o IdentityFile=~/home/user/Desktop/AWS Machines/file.pem dns.compute.amazonaws.com"
But getting
ssh: Could not resolve ...
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keeping PWD while switching to grids
I am currently using cshell at my workplace.
foll. is the alias i had kept as a shortcut to login to my grid
alias joreg 'qrsh -P grid1'
Now whenever i go from my home to another grid it takes me ...
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Apache alias do not show images with https
I have created an alias to store product images on a different drive as follow:
ServerName multiplace.net.br
ServerAlias www.multiplace.net.br
ServerAdmin contato@multiplace....
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adding a second command to a python script with args
I have an alias for a python script that basically converts some files into another format, I want to be able to remove some intermediate format that this script generates as a post process after ...
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How do I set an alias to a terminal line?
I want to easily set an alias git-go to this terminal line:
git commit -m "init "; git push; git status
So when I enter git-go this line should enter.
How can I do that? The answers I seen only ...
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Multiple alias commands for NordVpn - disconnect from vpn && restart internet
I am using NordVPN and for it a dedicated terminal program.
I have made two .desktop alias to connect to vpn and to disconect.
Fist one is to connect to US server:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=NordVPN c us
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How to check if an alias ran successfully in shell scripting?
I have a bash script where I'd like to check if an alias to activate conda runs successfully and if not raise an error. Although script runs without raising an error, none of the echo's get printed. ...
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Alias don't function Ubuntu Mate 19.04 [duplicate]
I setup an alias on my Ubuntu Mate 19.04 like this,
alias up='apt-get update && apt-get upgrade'
I've setup the alias at the end of the file bash.bashrc, using these commands,
nano /etc/...
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Command “look” optimisation (virtual linebreaks)
(I am not totally sure if this question ONLY belongs to Ubuntu but rather to all OS supporting a command line or shell)
~/.bashrc | ~/.zshrc
alias proxyon='export FTP_PROXY=http://ftp-proxy.intern....
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How can I make an alias for a long ls command?
When I type in xfce4-terminal the command:
ls -pltrh --color=always --time-style="+%d-%b-%Y $newline%H:%M" | grep --color=never -v / | cut -d ' ' -f6-
echo -e -n '\033[1;5;36m'"Diretório §⮕ "
echo -...
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How to open jupyter in WSL via terminal with a specific starting directory?
I unfortunately didn't found a solution to the above described problem.
Since there are several python packages only available for linux I want to use python now from WSL.
I installed anaconda on ...
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Save function as alias
I am working on function that will resize and optimize all images in the directory with single command.
So far I created this function
function prepareimages() {
# Resize Images
for img in ...
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dmenu doesn't recognise aliases [closed]
My dmenu doesn't recognise aliases. I've found a solution but I can't seem to figure out what he is trying to say.
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How to create an folder path alias on ubuntu EC2 instance?
ubuntu 18.04 on AWS
I followed an answer on stackoverflow to create a path alias:
nano ~/.bashrc
alias myfolder='/home/xxx/pms'
When I try to cd
cd myfolder
I get:
No such file or Directory
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How can I use an alias in a function?
In my dotfiles I have some functions that rely on aliases or functions to exist for them to work. For some reason, I can get them to reference other functions I have created, but not aliases for ...
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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 ...
