The alias command is one way to customize you system commands
man alias for more info
A recent good example I was given is related to recent posts
alias rpi=”ssh pi@raspberrypi’
this essentially allows you to type
rpi
and have the shell execute
ssh pi@raspberrypi
Which could clearly be time saver,
The .bash_aliases file (remember the period . denotes hidden files) is where you can define multiple aliases for your system
While you can put these definitions in to .bashrc, .bashrc generally looks in .bash_aliases first or seems to, and checks to see if .bash_aliases exists, if it does it reads that file, otherwise if anything is defined in .bashrc then that is read.
In general you will need to logout and log back in, however if you start lxterminal, edit from there, save, exit the lxterminal session then it should work next time you start lxterminal.
NB:
lxterminal is applicable to the lxde window manager.
Further ideas
alias rpiX=”ssh -X pi@raspberrypi’ – will connect with X forwarding
