- A command in various command-line interpreters (shells), which enables a replacement of a word by another string. It is mainly used for abbreviating system commands or for adding default arguments to regularly used commands. An alias will last for the life of the shell session. Regularly used aliases can be set from the shell’s rc file (such as .bashrc) so that they will be available upon the start of the corresponding shell session. ← Wikipedia
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