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Shell Aliases

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Aliases create shortcuts for long commands: alias ll='ls -la'. Add them to ~/.bashrc to make them permanent. Run source ~/.bashrc to apply without restarting the terminal. alias with no arguments lists all aliases.

Useful Aliases

# Add to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
alias ll="ls -la"
alias gs="git status"
alias gp="git push"
alias serve="python3 -m http.server 8080"
alias myip="curl https://ipinfo.io/ip"
alias update="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y"

# Reload
source ~/.bashrc

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