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Aliases for your Linux command

Category: Computer Tricks • Linux • Technology
Posted on: May 23, 2009 7:19 PM, by Greg Laden

The example Sean gives us here is probably kind of dumb. One of the more useful aliases is for people trained on another system who want things like "dir" to give you a directly lesson (so you set dir to be an alias of ls, with whatever options you like).

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