Aliases in Unix and Linux operating systems are cool. They let you define your own commands, or command shortcuts, so you can customize the command line But before we start, we need to reveal a small command line trick. It's possible to put more than one command on a line by separating each command with a semicolon character. It work like this
Here's the example we will use
We have combine two commads.
First we change /root Directory to Desktop and the return back to /root Directory using
( cd -).
Here's the example we will use
First we change /root Directory to Desktop and the return back to /root Directory using
( cd -).
The first thing we have to do is dream up a name for our new
command. Let's try “web”. Before we do that, it would be a good idea to find out if the name “test” is already being used. To find out, we can use the type command again:
Great! “web” is not taken. So let's create our alias:
Notice the structure of this command:
alias name='string'
we have used /var/www/ directory. /www part of apache server directory where we upload .html, .php etc.. files . Second Command we have used ls -l this command show the list of directory with details.
After the command “alias” we give alias a name followed immediately (no whitespace allowed) by an equals sign, followed immediately by a quoted string containing the meaning to be assigned to the name. After we define our alias, it can be used anywhere the shell would expect a command. Let's try it:
Great! Directories Change and show list.
We can also use the type command again to see our alias:
To remove an alias, the unalias command is used, like so:
Wooo Great!........
hope it will helpfull for you !