Uploaded July 2014 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago

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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.

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OS: Ubuntu 12.04.3 Desktop Edition
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