Alias

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Contents 1 Creating shortcuts on the cmdline 2 Common aliases 3 disabling an alias 4 showing the alias

Creating shortcuts on the cmdline

One of the common aliases is ll instead of ls -l or even ls -lh If you want that kind of shortcut not only temporarly but in every shell, open up your ~/.bashrc in your favorite text-editor and enter

alias ll='ls -l'

Common aliases

alias df='df -h'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
alias e='vim'

disabling an alias

is done via

unalias ll

showing the alias

if you want to know if ls has an alias use the type command:

type ls

and the result will most likely be

$ type ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'