Create aliases with the Linux command line to make commands easier to remember.

Creating an alias for bash makes remembering a command easier. This is how longer commands may be simplified. Here is an example. [jason@darknet:~] alias lseasy=’ls -lAhF'[jason@darknet:~] alias lseasy=’ls -lAhF’ This is the output. [jason@darknet:~/Videos] lseasy total 4.8G -rw-r–r– 1 jason jason 18 Mar 24 13:34 authrootseq.txt -rw-r–r– 1 jason jason 23K Mar 24 13:55 heap2.htm … Read more

How to use aliases with the bash shell and some other useful Linux tricks.

Are you wanting to create an alias and you want to see how they are done? Well a Linux distribution should come with some aliases that are already created for you and you can type the alias ls command to see how one is created. ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ alias ls alias ls=’ls –color=auto’ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ alias ls alias ls=’ls … Read more