Questions tagged [alias]
An alias is essentially nothing more than a keyboard shortcut, an abbreviation, a means of avoiding typing a long command sequence. This can save a great deal of typing at the command-line and avoid having to remember complex combinations of commands and options.
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To create an alias for grep and to include directories
Frequently I'm using grep to search for some text in a bunch of folders, e.g.
grep --include='*.csv' -nRHI --color=always 'pattern' Folder1 Folder2
I'd like to create an alias something like
alias ...
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zsh, .bash_profile, and aliases
I have a script downloaded from the Internet, the beginning of which looks like this:
echo "alias myip='curl -s https://api.ipify.org/'" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "alias myiplookup='...
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Command invoked from one path, "which" says it should be invoked from elsewhere [duplicate]
I've built an executable which, for the sake of this question, is named foo. There is already a version of it at /usr/bin/foo, and I install a different version as /usr/local/bin/foo. My path has /usr/...
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Understanding syntax of output from alias [duplicate]
I don't understand how to read the string and the escaping of the following output from listing aliases
> alias foo="echo 'hello'"
> alias
...
alias foo='echo '\''hello'\'''
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It ...
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Bash - get file count
I have the following alias defined in my .bashrc
alias lsfc='ls -l "$@" | tee /dev/tty | grep -v / | echo "File count: `wc -l`"'
which is intended to give me the number of ...
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Can you fix this error while creating alias for encryption and decryption by GPG in z-shell?
I wanted to make a .zshrc alias with the help of these previous aliases present to make an alias to convert a compressed gpg to its original uncompressed folder or file...
However, I am facing this ...
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Override tr in ~/.bashrc
I'm trying to create a function to translate words via a custom script:
function mean() {
~/scripts/translate.sh $1
}
I would prefer the function to be named tr, as it is much shorter and faster ...
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How to overload / customize bash (or any other shell) commands handler?
When in bash some non existing command is run, corresponding error message appears:
$ non-existent-command
non-existent-command: command not found
Is it possible to customize this behavior?
I would ...
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Get a list of all user's commands from a non-interactive shell
I am writing a script that would automatically suggest some new aliases/functions to be added to a user's shell config. Before doing that, however, I would like to make sure the aliases being ...
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zsh alias does not complete fully if not sourced once a day
vi ~/.zsh
alias k='kubectl'
complete -o default -F __start_kubectl k
alias kga='k get all,ingress'
If I do not source .zsh every day it does not take into account the ingress part of the kga alias. ...
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How to write an alias or bash script that renames a single file using the same syntax as the `ren` command of Windows?
I am a long-term a Windows user, so I find the syntax of the ren command both simple and convenient:
ren C:\pathTo\myFile\oldFileName.txt newFileName.txt
[Update 24 July 2024] To be clear about my ...
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Are there alternatives to alias I'm not aware of?
Today I started to notice weird behavior running a local command for a binary installed through Go. It seems the command is aliased, but consulting alias, it isn't.
The command buf somehow executes cp!...
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how to alias the `history` function in fish shell
I'm trying to set the fish history pager to be bat -l fish for syntax highlighting.
(i.e. set the PAGER environment variable bat -l fish just for the history command).
I tried:
# 1:
alias history &...
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How to escape both single quotes and exclamation marks in bash
I have a long command and I just want to use alias to shorten it. But the command contains single quotes and exclamation marks.
The origin command is ldapsearch -x -H ... -w 'abc!123'.
I tried alias ...
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Can't unalias then redefine as a function in the same conditional [duplicate]
Here is a simplified implementation of an issue in my bash/zsh aliases file:
alias foobar='echo bar' # this is out of my control
if true; then
unalias foobar
echo we got inside the conditional
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Is it possible to use a command with an argument to trigger a bash alias?
I have a program that tries to trigger a screenlock using the following commands:
xdg-screensaver lock
xscreensaver -lock
cinnamon-screensaver-command --lock
The problem is that I'm using ...
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Zsh zinit load OhMyZsh plugin skipping aliases
I want to use these plugins using zinit to load git completions in zsh
zinit wait lucid for \
OMZL::git.zsh \
OMZP::git
But I don't care about the aliases, there are really too much aliases I ...
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Is there a way I can use .bash_aliases in a shell-scripts? [duplicate]
Is there a way I can use bash aliases from my .bash_aliases file within a shell-scripts?
I thought of something like including
source "$HOME/.bash_aliases into my script
but it does not work.
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How can I call git's built-in diff command directly after configuring a different visual "git diff" substitute?
I have configured git diff to be a command that calls substitute diff for viewing file differences i.e /usr/bin/vim -dR "$2" "$3" and that doesn't work when I want to create a ...
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Can I reprogram the pwd command to add a trailing slash?
WHen I use the pwd command, it prints e.g /opt instead of /opt/. I would like it to print the trailing slash. However, I tried adding the following line to my ~/.bash_aliases file:
alias pwd=" ...
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alias defined in .zshrc does not propagate to shell script
I have python installed on my system as python3. In my .zshrc file I defined following alias:
alias python=python3
With this, I am able to run python3 using python on the command-line:
$ python
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How can I remove aliases "which-command=whence" and "run-help=man"?
I'm running Artix Linux and using zsh, and these two aliases return no matter how many times I unalias them or remove them from my aliasrc:
run-help=man
which-command=whence
And they don't exist in ...
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Can i used these aliases in some sort of config file?
I have many of these kinds of aliases, the part before = is the host in ssh config
alias sshConfigHost='ssh -t hostname docker exec -it containerName bash'
Could I add these to some sort of config ...
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ksh88 string substitution in alias | mpv streaming [duplicate]
tl;dr how can I substitute a string (i.e. a youtube/streaming url) in an alias such as alias mpvyt='yt-dlp <URL> -o - | mpv - ' ?
I live in a mezzanine studio using a M1 macbook for a ...
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How to show help for some bash command in less (like man do) rather than print it to console
For example, there is no manual pages for trap command. Running:
man trap
will give:
No manual entry for trap
Running:
trap --help
will print help straight to bash console without using less like ...
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Converting a tcsh alias into zsh
I had a tcsh alias as follows:
alias cdd 'cd `dirname \!*`'
I use this to change the directory to the one containing a certain file.
For instance,
cdd /Users/myself/Document/Folder/File.pdf
would ...
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nushell - how to list aliases?
The official docs of nushell claim that one is able to list available aliases via:
$nu.scope.aliases
However this does not work on my Arch Linux machine:
/home/rne〉pacman -Q nushell ...
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How to config alias on RedHat server?
I'm using a server where I'm a common user (non-sudo).
I access the server through ssh.
Here's the output of some commands run on the server:
[username@machinename: ~]$ ps -p $$
PID TTY ...
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Ubuntu WSL2 startup error "is a directory" upon adding 'alias dsa='cd /home/rj/programming' to .bashrc
I added the following alias to .bashrc
alias dsa='cd /home/rj/programming/dsa' and when I type dsa in the shell, bash does indeed change to that directory but when the shell starts up I get a strange ...
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Unix Command (and bash alias) or script to band/unban IP addresses in Fail2ban without having to lookup and specify "jail name"
I am creating a bash alias (or possibly a script) to ban and unban IP addresses with fail2ban on Ubuntu 20.04.
The bash syntax I am using to unban IP address is:
fail2ban-client set YOURJAILNAMEHERE ...
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Sourcing alias fails - No such file or directory
I have a large number of shell scripts in a deep directory tree with varying versions. To simplify using these I added a function to create an alias (selected via command line option):
function ...
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Bash script ignores all terminal input following an underscore [duplicate]
Goal
My server manages jobs using SLURM. Each job in the queue has a job ID, which can be either a single integer or two integers separated by an underscore, e.g., 123_4. You can use scontrol show job ...
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Command doens't work when aliased
I have a command created and I am trying to convert it to an alias to make it easier to use, however I am unable to solve the problem as to how best to format it. Can you help me?
The principle of the ...
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How to use alias command with a paramiko SSHClient connection?
I am trying to execute the following, with no success getting either the 'py3start' or the 'py3test' alias commands recognized - (I introduced the 'py3test' for testing purposes to check if setting ...
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How can I alias `...` to `../..` in Bash?
How can I alias ... to ../.. in Bash?
I am aware that other answers allow alias '...'='cd ../..' but I'd like to be able to address the directory two levels up with other commands, allowing for:
cd ......
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zsh: alias'd commands stop working
This keeps happening and I'm not sure why. How do I trace what zsh is actually trying to do, and why it starts ignoring my alias?
************@*******-MacBook-Pro$ reload
zsh: command not found: ...
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Order in which files within /etc/profile.d are sourced in CentOS 7.9? (for defining aliases)
I have a question related to aliases/environment variables on CentOS 7.9. I am trying to make an alias for ll with:
echo 'alias ll="ls -alhF --color=auto"' > /etc/profile.d/Z-alias-ll.sh
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Alias + and - in zsh?
For years I've used + and - as aliases for pushd and popd in both csh and bash. I've finally given up on my Macs and want to switch to zsh but I haven't been able to find a way to make these aliases. ...
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Prevent alias expansion when alias is passed as an argument
I have two aliases:
alias rm='python my/rm/script.py '
alias docker='sudo docker '
The problem is that when running the statement $ docker rm ARGS the keyword rm is being expanded as alias and docker ...
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How to navigate to a previous line in a bash script
I have a bash script with a lot of if/elif statements.
Is there a way to take the output of a command, and make it execute the associated if/elif statement, rather than the default version of the ...
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How to substitute one file path for another everywhere for my profile
I am using some software on a shared Linux virtual machine, and I need to create my own version of one of the software's executable files. Let's say the executable file in question is here:
$...
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How I alias a hostname without root access vis-a-vis gethostbyname?
I'm running a program which does (in its source code):
gethostbyname("whatever");
and I want it to use the local machine's address instead. I can't change the source. If I were root, it ...
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Quoting arguments for alias commands. How does that work?
I added alias for my git log command:
$ alias gl
alias gl='gn -c git log -w -b -p --ignore-blank-lines --full-history'
$ alias gn
alias gn='git-number'
-n flag of git-number command runs subcommand, ...
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alias for watch command gets stopped?
I create this alias, so that aliases get expanded in the watch statement.
> alias w='watch -x bash -i -c'
> alias k=kubectl
I execute it:
> w 'k get pods; echo; k get svc'
After two seconds ...
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setting alias for sourcing a script, to run that script in jenkins with restricted permissions
I want to run source ./script_name instead of ./script_name. Can I create an alias for this ?
The Jenkins job will run the script as ./script_name and I can't edit the way it will run the script on ...
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Alias for the "su" Command
BASH SHELL; DEBIAN STRETCH
As seen here, I've created a "seems to work OK, most of the time" alias function for the su command (actually, I'm not able to find any problems with it...yet). I'...
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tilde_expand: No such user .ssh
I have this weirdest error where a single IP address with ssh would immediately return an error
arthur@arthur-laptop:~$ ssh 192.168.1.85
tilde_expand: No such user .ssh
I feel like it's an issue with ...
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How openbox knows .bash_aliases used in its autostart file
I'm using two commands in a file executed by my .config/openbox/autostart.sh which are also aliased in my .bash_alises and one of them changes from time to time. The thing is that I also use these ...
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bashrc alias using ticks and backticks not working
I would like to create in .bashrc an alias which executes the following:
virsh list --all | sed '1,2d' | sed '/^$/d'| awk '{print $2" state:"$3" "$4}'
I've tried in different ways ...
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How to list only the aliases defined by the user?
I'm using the ZSH and defined some aliases (stored in multiple fines, that are loaded in the ~/.zshrc). That is working fine. Executing the command alias allows to list all available aliases.
Now I'd ...
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