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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @alex.olynyk
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      @alex.olynyk said:

      @scottalanmiller How do make a permanent alias? For example I want to shorten clear to cls.

      # alias cls="clear"
      

      Then add it into your .bashrc file for just you or into the /etc/profile for everyone on a system.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Or your .profile if you want it across all of your shells.

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            scottalanmiller @aaron-closed account
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            @aaron said:

            @scottalanmiller I am enjoying these write-ups and would like to share them with some of my junior staff. Is there an index page of sorts ?

            There are ways to show them as an index. One is the official "table of contents" which presents the entire series "in order":

            http://mangolassi.it/topic/7825/sam-learning-linux-system-administration

            And then there is the "SAM Linux Administration" tag which shows all of the articles tagged as part of the series which will show them more in "order they were written":

            http://mangolassi.it/tags/sam linux administration

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              My plan is to get a small "banner" that goes across the top of each and points back to the main page to make navigation much easier and clearer. Just need to get a banner made, though 🙂

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              • stacksofplatesS
                stacksofplates @alex.olynyk
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                @alex.olynyk said:

                @scottalanmiller How do make a permanent alias? For example I want to shorten clear to cls.

                You can just use ctrl+l then you don't even need the alias.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
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                  In order for me to properly remove the sample "go2t" alias I had to use

                  unalias go2t
                  alias
                  alias ls='ls --color=auto'
                  

                  Prior to unalias I had

                   alias 
                   alias go2t=''
                   alias ls='ls --color=auto'
                  
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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                    @DustinB3403 Thanks. OP has been fixed.

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                    • tonyshowoffT
                      tonyshowoff
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                      Instead of just using aliases, set your home directory in your PATH before /usr/bin/local and create replacement programs to irritate anyone using your user account... that's what I do for fun on my personal machine.

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                      • travisdh1T
                        travisdh1 @tonyshowoff
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                        @tonyshowoff said in Linux: Aliases:

                        Instead of just using aliases, set your home directory in your PATH before /usr/bin/local and create replacement programs to irritate anyone using your user account... that's what I do for fun on my personal machine.

                        If it's just your local machine..... why not do that system wide? (Apparently I'm feeling especially evil tonight.)

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403
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                          You know just because I hate having to type "clear" every time... every linux system I have is getting the "cls" alias!

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                          • stacksofplatesS
                            stacksofplates @DustinB3403
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                            @DustinB3403 said in Linux: Aliases:

                            You know just because I hate having to type "clear" every time... every linux system I have is getting the "cls" alias!

                            You can just do ctrl+l

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403 @stacksofplates
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                              @johnhooks said in Linux: Aliases:

                              @DustinB3403 said in Linux: Aliases:

                              You know just because I hate having to type "clear" every time... every linux system I have is getting the "cls" alias!

                              You can just do ctrl+l

                              And have to remember yet another keyboard shortcut?!

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                              • travisdh1T
                                travisdh1 @DustinB3403
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                                @DustinB3403 said in Linux: Aliases:

                                @johnhooks said in Linux: Aliases:

                                @DustinB3403 said in Linux: Aliases:

                                You know just because I hate having to type "clear" every time... every linux system I have is getting the "cls" alias!

                                You can just do ctrl+l

                                And have to remember yet another keyboard shortcut?!

                                SOME of us had nothing BUT keyboard shortcuts to work with at one point 😉 Seriously, real, physical RS-232 terminals with 64 keys were no fun! I can't even find pictures of the one I was stuck with, it was numbers, letters, and a ctrl key.

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                                • tonyshowoffT
                                  tonyshowoff @DustinB3403
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                                  @DustinB3403 said in Linux: Aliases:

                                  @johnhooks said in Linux: Aliases:

                                  @DustinB3403 said in Linux: Aliases:

                                  You know just because I hate having to type "clear" every time... every linux system I have is getting the "cls" alias!

                                  You can just do ctrl+l

                                  And have to remember yet another keyboard shortcut?!

                                  ctrl + l (L) is pretty universal for clear screen in the POSIX-compliant world, it's really about learning standard short cuts, like ctrl + k is delete line, ctrl + c is SIGINT, hell the latter even works in MSDOS and PowerShell.

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