How can I create an alias so that when I enter "kt" it executes "killall gnome-terminal"?
Creating an alias
- To add an alias type the following in terminal,it will work until you close your terminal.
alias kt='killall gnome-panel'
- To add this alias permanently you have to add the above command into .bashrc file
gedit ~/.bashrc
- Add the first command at the end of your .bashrc file,
- To refresh your .bashrc file type the following in terminal,
. ~/.bashrc
orsource .bashrc
- Now you can type
kt
in terminal it will perform the action ofkillall gnome-panel
- To list all your aliases type
alias
in terminal.
Few examples:
- To create an alias for update,you have to add the following to your
.bashrc
alias update='sudo apt-get update'
- For upgrade
alias upgrade='sudo apt-get upgrade'
- To add both update and upgrade you can do the following
alias upd='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade'
Note:
- Source command is used for applying the changes that you have just made in a configuration file.
- By ændrük suggestion you can also put your custom aliases in ~/.bash_aliases
Just type alias kt="killall gnome-terminal"
in command line (I assume you're bash user).
To make this changes permanent, you can put this line to your .bashrc
, for example. Execute echo 'alias kt="killall gnome-terminal"' >> ~/.bashrc
(don't forget to re-apply changes using . ~/.bashrc
)
Use simple alias
command to see the list of aliases in action.
Cheers
update: BTW, you may find this useful as well: Problem with creating permanent alias