Comments on: Creating Shortcuts With User Aliases http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/ Enhancing your Ubuntu experience! Fri, 11 May 2012 05:04:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Neil http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/#comment-14645 Neil Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:28:47 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=316#comment-14645 did not work in ubuntu 10.10 I had to put all in .bashrc did not work in ubuntu 10.10
I had to put all in .bashrc

]]> By: MJWiMac http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/#comment-8129 MJWiMac Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:41:30 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=316#comment-8129 CORRECTION MY PERVIOUS POST!! I FIGURED IT OUT!!! if you have a space in your user name and you are creating an alias to connect to it using ssh, in nano .bashrc. Type alias iMac(or watever)=ssh\ -p\ XXXXX\ "First\ Last"@XX.XXX.XXX.X NOTICE THE " " around my first and last name, THIS IS REQUIRED... NOT JUS THE \ before the space!!! I DONT KNOW WHY, but there ya go! CORRECTION MY PERVIOUS POST!!
I FIGURED IT OUT!!! if you have a space in your user name and you are creating an alias to connect to it using ssh, in nano .bashrc. Type alias iMac(or watever)=ssh\ -p\ XXXXX\ “First\ Last”@XX.XXX.XXX.X NOTICE THE ” ” around my first and last name, THIS IS REQUIRED… NOT JUS THE \ before the space!!! I DONT KNOW WHY, but there ya go!

]]> By: MJWiMac http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/#comment-8128 MJWiMac Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:28:21 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=316#comment-8128 PLEASE HELP!! I created an alias in .bashrc by nano .bashrc then i entered alias iMac=ssh\ -p\ XXXXX\ First\ Last@XX.XXX.XXX.X then i saved it and ran source /.bashrc But when I type in a clean shell "iMac"... I get this error "ssh: Could not resolve hostname First: nodename nor servname provided, or not known.".... NOW, I have tried the alias without the "\" every where els but the name, But the closest I get is above, if I just put a space inbetween my first and last name (my username) it just tells me it stops at "Michael"... i tried using _ and / and putting them before and after the space... ITS DRIVING MY NUTZ!!! my email is michael_withe21@hotmail.com please help!!! PLEASE HELP!! I created an alias in .bashrc by nano .bashrc then i entered alias iMac=ssh\ -p\ XXXXX\ First\ Last@XX.XXX.XXX.X then i saved it and ran source /.bashrc But when I type in a clean shell “iMac”… I get this error “ssh: Could not resolve hostname First: nodename nor servname provided, or not known.”…. NOW, I have tried the alias without the “\” every where els but the name, But the closest I get is above, if I just put a space inbetween my first and last name (my username) it just tells me it stops at “Michael”… i tried using _ and / and putting them before and after the space… ITS DRIVING MY NUTZ!!! my email is michael_withe21@hotmail.com please help!!!

]]> By: sobaken http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/#comment-7635 sobaken Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:49:00 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=316#comment-7635 Thank you Sak! tip about .bash_aliases it what i've looked for! :) Thank you Sak!

tip about .bash_aliases it what i’ve looked for! :)

]]> By: Review Man http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/#comment-7517 Review Man Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:03:44 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=316#comment-7517 And how do I enable ~/.profile and aliases herein to get read by gnome-terminal? And how do I enable ~/.profile and aliases herein to get read by gnome-terminal?

]]> By: mycroft http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/#comment-3848 mycroft Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:48:51 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=316#comment-3848 Well, my apologies to anyone listening... Being the newbie I am, I didn't realize that my Gnome-terminal application would allow me to set it so that is process the command shell correctly. I use the Korn shell because I need to mimic usage on an HPUX system, and that is the default shell used on that server. I want to use my laptop as a developer workstation, and figured Ubuntu, running ksh would work for me. So, far so good. The fix is easy, as you just need to go to the gnome-terminal profile being used, click on the Edit Profile option, click the 'Title and Command' tab, and enable the checkbox for 'Run a command as a login shell'. Close the session, and re-open, and your ~/.profile will be processed. So, you can do as you like setting aliases or variable in that file for personal use, or create or call another file to set them up. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is the hardest to see, but this is working for me, and I can use ksh, too, without a lot of fuss and bother. Cheers Well, my apologies to anyone listening…

Being the newbie I am, I didn’t realize that my Gnome-terminal application would allow me to set it so that is process the command shell correctly.

I use the Korn shell because I need to mimic usage on an HPUX system, and that is the default shell used on that server. I want to use my laptop as a developer workstation, and figured Ubuntu, running ksh would work for me. So, far so good. The fix is easy, as you just need to go to the gnome-terminal profile being used, click on the Edit Profile option, click the ‘Title and Command’ tab, and enable the checkbox for ‘Run a command as a login shell’. Close the session, and re-open, and your ~/.profile will be processed. So, you can do as you like setting aliases or variable in that file for personal use, or create or call another file to set them up.

Sometimes the easiest thing to do is the hardest to see, but this is working for me, and I can use ksh, too, without a lot of fuss and bother.

Cheers

]]> By: mycroft http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/#comment-3839 mycroft Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:44:18 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=316#comment-3839 None of this is working on my install. I changed the /etc/profile call, but still it does not call my .~/.bash_aliases script. Any other ideas? I see aliases are being created somewhere, but I can't find 'em. Help!!! Thanks None of this is working on my install. I changed the /etc/profile call, but still it does not call my .~/.bash_aliases script.

Any other ideas?

I see aliases are being created somewhere, but I can’t find ‘em. Help!!!

Thanks

]]> By: Paijo Marpaung http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/#comment-1360 Paijo Marpaung Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:11:02 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=316#comment-1360 i still need much learn about this. i still need much learn about this.

]]> By: Sak http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/#comment-1359 Sak Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:16:32 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=316#comment-1359 Awesome tip, aliases save a lot of time. But a more proper place to put (and manage them) would be in something like a ~/.bash_aliases file. In ~/.bashrc, find the section that looks like this # Alias definitions. # You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like # ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly. # See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package. #if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then # . ~/.bash_aliases #fi And uncomment those last 3 lines. That way you have 1 file just for your own custom aliases and they can be more easily managed and separate from the bash config file. Awesome tip, aliases save a lot of time. But a more proper place to put (and manage them) would be in something like a ~/.bash_aliases file. In ~/.bashrc, find the section that looks like this

# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.

#if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
# . ~/.bash_aliases
#fi

And uncomment those last 3 lines. That way you have 1 file just for your own custom aliases and they can be more easily managed and separate from the bash config file.

]]> By: Marius Gedminas http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/03/30/creating-shortcuts-with-user-aliases/#comment-1358 Marius Gedminas Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:18:49 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=316#comment-1358 Another thing: instead of writing (or aliasing) ssh -p 22222 user@server you can create a ~/.ssh/config file with Host work User user HostName server Port 2222 and then you can use ssh work or scp somefile work:somedirectory without repeating usernames, hostnames or port numbers. Another thing: instead of writing (or aliasing) ssh -p 22222 user@server you can create a ~/.ssh/config file with

Host work
User user
HostName server
Port 2222

and then you can use ssh work or scp somefile work:somedirectory without repeating usernames, hostnames or port numbers.

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