Comments on: Command Aliases in Unix shells

By: bhagya

bhagya — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:30:07 +0000

Some more information about unix alias command

http://scripterworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/unix-alias-command-parameters-or.html

By: Nick Yeoman

Nick Yeoman — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:03:56 +0000

I loved this article so much I had to write about it myself!

http://www.nickyeoman.com/blog/desktop-development/62-unix-aliases

By: verdon vaillancourt

verdon vaillancourt — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:59:31 +0000

great tip, thanks!

Here's one that I use. It's a little specific to me perhaps, but a good example of how the alias reduces an oft used command from a great long string to 4 characters

alias cloc='/Users/verdon/Library/Scripts/cloc-1.08.pl –read-lang-def=/Users/verdon/Library/Scripts/cloc-definitions.txt'

Note: cloc is a script for counting lines of code

By: Nick Yeoman

Nick Yeoman — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:58:47 +0000

Great article post! I remember learning this in my first year of college. I've not used alias' since (except on windows to fix their ls to work as dir). This is a great reminder of how we should be saving ourselves time using available tools.

My favorite alias is:
ll ls -la –color=tty
( added the -a option to mine)

I also setup my ssh connections like so:
ssh-mysql ssh nick@server.com -L 3306:localhost:3306
(the above is an ssh tunnel for mysql)