This article shows how to create a alias in both windows and Unix command prompt.
1. Windows:
1. Open the command prompt. ( Run -> type "cmd" and hit enter.
2. use the below command to create an alias.
doskey <alias>=<command>
For ex : if i want to set alias sys to connect the database i use the below command.
* doskey sys=sqlplus system/oracle
Now if you type sys it will directly connect to the database by running the sqlplus command.
UNIX:
Now we will see how to create alias in Unix operating system.
1. Login to bash shell.
2. Below is the command used to create an alias in UNIX.
* alias <alias_name>=<command>
For ex : if i want to set l to run the command ls -lrt use the below command.
alias l="ls -lrt"
When you type l it will run the command you have set for this alias.
MBP:~ nirmalg$ alias l="ls -lrt"
MBP:~ nirmalg$ l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 user1 staff 128 Mar 29 16:37 Public
drwx------+ 5 user1 staff 160 Apr 9 22:01 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 6 user1 staff 192 Apr 24 06:57 Applications
MBP:~ nirmalg$
