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title: "Command Line Basics: Bash Aliases"
url: "/articles/command-line-basics-bash-aliases"
type: article
date: 2010-12-06
updated: 2019-01-11
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# Command Line Basics: Bash Aliases

#  Command Line Basics: Bash Aliases 

 Create custom command shortcuts

 By

 [  Addison Berry   ](/about/addison-berry) 

 December 6, 2010

  

This video shows you how to create your own custom shortcuts for various commands. We'll look at some common aliases and see how to add them to our command line environment. This is super handy for commands that you type in all the time and don't want to go through the tedium of typing the whole thing out every time. For example, we show how to automatically go to a particular directory with just one word (e.g. type "clients" and go to the /Users/add1sun/lullabot/clients directory immediately).

 

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