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Revision as of 03:45, 23 January 2012
An alias is a string that stands for a command. For example you can define "greet" to be an alias for "echo 'hello world'" like this:
# alias greet="echo 'hello world'" # greet hello world
So you can set an alias using the command alias. With this command you can also show the meaning of a alias:
# alias dir alias dir='ls -l'
