How to use aliases in BASH

Make your terminal yours with aliases.

Aliases are a very handy mechanism that allow you to substitute a command or group of commands with a string, allowing you to, in effect define new commands.

This tutorial covers some of the basic uses of the alias mechanism and a few pitfalls to avoid when creating aliases.

Shell used: BASH
OS: Ubuntu 12.04.3 Desktop Edition

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[kuehling]

Still helpful in 2021! Having to see how this is done on a mac for the first time today. Great demo :)

[romanmotovilov]

Thank you, sir. It's a great video lesson.

[fmpDMB]

most useful alias?
alias ea='nano ~/.bash_aliases && source ~/.bash_aliases'

[NosurfOfficial]

Ey great video. But I don't know how inviting the name Linux LEECH is...