What are useful Bash aliases and functions | Linux Today

What are useful Bash aliases and functions

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Oct 22, 2014

As a command line adventurer, you probably found yourself repeating the same lengthy commands over and over. If you always ssh into the same machine, if you always chain the same commands together, or if you constantly run a program with the same flags, you might want to save the precious seconds of your life that you spend repeating the same actions over and over.

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