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mikhou

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-06-12

Posts: 147

How to map shortcut commands for longer processes [SOLVED]

This feels like a simple question and should be a simple find, but I cannot find the answer.  I know that I have read here before where someone said that they mapped shortcut commands for longer processes.  For example:

"upg" would be a shortcut for "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"

But for the life of me, I have searched and can't find that.  Can anybody tell me how to do this, and is this a Linux thing, an OB thing, or an xfce thing?

mikhou

Last edited by mikhou (2012-04-13 07:16:27)

noman

Member

Registered: 2012-03-06

Posts: 37

Re: How to map shortcut commands for longer processes [SOLVED]

Alias is what you're looking for. alias upg='blablabla' for what you wrote up there. To make it permanent you add it to ~/.bashrc.

Oh, and it's a Unix thing, I'm pretty sure.

Last edited by noman (2012-04-13 06:31:17)

mikhou

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-06-12

Posts: 147

Re: How to map shortcut commands for longer processes [SOLVED]

That's it!  I knew that it was something simple.  Can't believe that I couldn't search and find it.

mikhou