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To add more aliases, we can type something like
 
To add more aliases, we can type something like
  
<nowiki>alias svnclean="svn st | sed "/^M/d" | sed "^/A/d" | sed "s/\?[[:space:]]*//" | xargs rm -r"</nowiki>
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<nowiki>alias l="ls -al"</nowiki>  
  
 
By default, Ubuntu also reads in a file in your home directory called .bash_aliases
 
By default, Ubuntu also reads in a file in your home directory called .bash_aliases
 
Simply add the line as above to that file and it will create the alias every time you start a new terminal window.
 
Simply add the line as above to that file and it will create the alias every time you start a new terminal window.

Latest revision as of 16:04, 10 July 2014

Aliases are effectively user-created command-line shortcuts. In Ubuntu, several aliases are already created to make life on the command line a little more attractive. To see what's already there, simply type:

$alias

To add more aliases, we can type something like

alias l="ls -al"

By default, Ubuntu also reads in a file in your home directory called .bash_aliases Simply add the line as above to that file and it will create the alias every time you start a new terminal window.