Alias (command) - Typical Aliases

Typical Aliases

Some commonly used, but deprecated, aliases in the Bash shell:

alias ls='ls --color=auto' # use colors alias la='ls -Fa' # list all files alias ll='ls -Fls' # long listing format alias rm='rm -i' # prompt before overwrite (but dangerous, see Rm for a better approach) alias cp='cp -i' # prompt before overwrite (same general problem as the rm) alias mv='mv -i' # prompt before overwrite (same general problem as the rm) alias vi='vim' # use improved vi editor

Standard aliases of Windows PowerShell include:

new-alias cd set-location new-alias ls get-childitem new-alias dir get-childitem new-alias echo write-output new-alias ps get-process new-alias kill stop-process