An alias is an alternative name. In computer science, the most common contexts are command aliases in shells, column aliases in databases, or variable references in languages like C++.
For bash aliases use the bash-alias tag.
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What is the difference between String and string in C#?
What are the differences between these two, and which one should I use?
string s = "Hello world!";
String s = "Hello world!";
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Make a Bash alias that takes a parameter?
I used to use CShell (csh), which lets you make an alias that takes a parameter. The notation was something like
alias junk="mv \\!* ~/.Trash"
In Bash, this does not seem to work. Given that Bash has a multitude of useful features, I would assume…
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List Git aliases
How do I print a list of my git aliases, i.e., something analogous to the bash alias command?
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Aliases in Windows command prompt
I have added notepad++.exe to my Path in environment variables.
Now in command prompt, notepad++.exe filename.txt opens the filename.txt. But I want to do just np filename.txt to open the file.
I tried using DOSKEY np=notepad++. But it is just…
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Should I use alias or alias_method?
I found a blog post on alias vs. alias_method. As shown in the example given in that blog post, I simply want to alias a method to another within the same class. Which should I use? I always see alias used, but someone told me alias_method is…
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Git alias with positional parameters
Basically I'm trying to alias:
git files 9fa3
...to execute the command:
git diff --name-status 9fa3^ 9fa3
but git doesn't appear to pass positional parameters to the alias command. I have tried:
[alias]
files = "!git diff --name-status $1^…
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How to pass command line arguments to a shell alias?
How do I pass the command line arguments to an alias? Here is a sample:
alias mkcd='mkdir $1; cd $1;'
But in this case the $xx is getting translated at the alias creating time and not at runtime. I have, however, created a workaround using a…
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In Bash, how to add "Are you sure [Y/n]" to any command or alias?
In this particular case, I'd like to add a confirm in Bash for
Are you sure? [Y/n]
for Mercurial's hg push ssh://username@www.example.com//somepath/morepath, which is actually an alias. Is there a standard command that can be added to the alias…
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How do I run a shell script without using "sh" or "bash" commands?
I have a shell script which I want to run without using the "sh" or "bash" commands. For example:
Instead of: sh script.sh
I want to use: script.sh
How can I do this?
P.S. (i) I don't use shell script much and I tried reading about aliases, but I…
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How to write UPDATE SQL with Table alias in SQL Server 2008?
I have a very basic UPDATE SQL -
UPDATE HOLD_TABLE Q SET Q.TITLE = 'TEST' WHERE Q.ID = 101;
This query runs fine in Oracle, Derby, MySQL - but it fails in SQL server 2008
with following error:
"Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 Incorrect…
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Git Alias - Multiple Commands and Parameters
I am trying to create an alias that uses both multiple Git commands and positional parameters. There are Stackoverflow pages for each, and it would appear painfully obvious to do both, but I am having trouble.
As an example, I want to switch to…
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What do the &,<<, * mean in this database.yml file?
Up until now I have only used database.yml with each parameter called out explicitly, in the file below it uses some characters I do not understand. What does each line and symbol(&, *, <<) mean? How do I read this file?
development: &default
…
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SQL - using alias in Group By
Just curious about SQL syntax. So if I have
SELECT
itemName as ItemName,
substring(itemName, 1,1) as FirstLetter,
Count(itemName)
FROM table1
GROUP BY itemName, FirstLetter
This would be incorrect because
GROUP BY itemName, FirstLetter…
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ZSH alias with parameter
I am trying to make an alias with parameter for my simple git add/commit/push.
I've seen that a function could be used as an alias, so I tried but I didn't make it.
Before I had:
alias gitall="git add . ; git commit -m 'update' ; git push"
But I…
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Can you define aliases for imported modules in Python?
In Python, is it possible to define an alias for an imported module?
For instance:
import a_ridiculously_long_module_name
...so that is has an alias of 'short_name'.
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