From the monthly archives:

April 2010

Great sysadmins use aliases to avoid repeatedly typing common commands. Everybody knows lazy sysadmins are the best ones. The Commands: alias a=’cat ~/.bash_aliases’ alias ea=’vi ~/.bash_aliases; echo “Refreshing aliases”; source ~/.bash_aliases’ Here’s what they do: the command ‘a’ now prints out a list of your current aliases the command ‘ea’ brings up vi to edit [...]

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