Alias

What is an alias?

An alias allows you to make new shortcuts and synonyms for commonly used commands.

Why should I be interested in this?

For example, if you usually try to ping google.com in order to check your internet connection speed, it is really bothering to type every single time this command:

ping -c 10 google.com

To avoid this you can set up the alias pg that will tell t-ui to launch the above long command for you.

pg=ping -c 10 google.com

Now, anytime you want to check your internet speed you can simply type "pg".

Nice! How do I create one?

There are two ways:

• using the t-ui command "alias"
• editing the file alias.txt

1. Using the command

You can use the command "alias -add" to append a new alias to your alias.txt file. It's simple and fast, and you won't need to bother looking for the file, saving, checking syntax, etc.

Be aware that this method has some limitations:

• you won't be able to create a "no named alias" (an alias which has an empty name, that will be triggered when you hit enter and the input field is empty)
• you won't be able to create an alias whose name contains one or more spaces

The syntax is the following:
alias -add aliasname alias value

For example:
alias -add news search -g news

2. Editing the text file

Open the text file using: alias -file

Then, append this line to that file:
alias name=alias value

For example:
j=call John Doe

You can also define a no-named alias by adding this line:
=alias value
This is pretty useful when you don't want to waste time for an emergency, or something similar.

For example:
=call 911

Parametrized aliases