in order to ease work on the terminal shell linux enables you to set aliases of complex commands.

this can be done in different ways

- temporary

alias pico=’pico -w’

or alias pico=”pico -w”

- permanent

editing

$HOME/.bashrc

or $HOME/.bash_aliases

and write down the alias strings at the bottom ot the files

- to show up the current aliases

alias

or alias -p

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