How to create an folder path alias on ubuntu EC2 instance?
ubuntu 18.04 on AWS
I followed an answer on stackoverflow to create a path alias:
nano ~/.bashrc
alias myfolder='/home/xxx/pms'
When I try to cd
cd myfolder
I get:
No such file or Directory
But if I use the path it works.
I am not sure what the issue here is.
TIA
command-line bash amazon-ec2 alias
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ubuntu 18.04 on AWS
I followed an answer on stackoverflow to create a path alias:
nano ~/.bashrc
alias myfolder='/home/xxx/pms'
When I try to cd
cd myfolder
I get:
No such file or Directory
But if I use the path it works.
I am not sure what the issue here is.
TIA
command-line bash amazon-ec2 alias
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SidSid
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If you usealias "myfolder"="cd /home/xxx/pms"andsource ~/.bashrcyou'll be able to access your folder typing onlymyfolderon the terminal...
– Rafael Muynarsk
yesterday
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ubuntu 18.04 on AWS
I followed an answer on stackoverflow to create a path alias:
nano ~/.bashrc
alias myfolder='/home/xxx/pms'
When I try to cd
cd myfolder
I get:
No such file or Directory
But if I use the path it works.
I am not sure what the issue here is.
TIA
command-line bash amazon-ec2 alias
asked yesterday
SidSid
1134
ubuntu 18.04 on AWS
I followed an answer on stackoverflow to create a path alias:
nano ~/.bashrc
alias myfolder='/home/xxx/pms'
When I try to cd
cd myfolder
I get:
No such file or Directory
But if I use the path it works.
I am not sure what the issue here is.
TIA
command-line bash amazon-ec2 alias
command-line bash amazon-ec2 alias
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If you usealias "myfolder"="cd /home/xxx/pms"andsource ~/.bashrcyou'll be able to access your folder typing onlymyfolderon the terminal...
– Rafael Muynarsk
yesterday
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If you usealias "myfolder"="cd /home/xxx/pms"andsource ~/.bashrcyou'll be able to access your folder typing onlymyfolderon the terminal...
– Rafael Muynarsk
yesterday
If you use
alias "myfolder"="cd /home/xxx/pms" and source ~/.bashrc you'll be able to access your folder typing only myfolder on the terminal...– Rafael Muynarsk
yesterday
If you use
alias "myfolder"="cd /home/xxx/pms" and source ~/.bashrc you'll be able to access your folder typing only myfolder on the terminal...– Rafael Muynarsk
yesterday
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What you're trying
You may be thinking of the term alias as defined and used in Mac OS.
For ubuntu the command alias does something totally different. The command you have used is for creating new commands so you don't have to remember a longer command, or a longer command you type so much it is quicker to type the alias. For example, if I don't want to keep typing this command to launch a program:
java -jar /usr/local/bin/bfg-1.13.0.jar
You could create an alias called bfg in my Unix profile (or ~/.bashrc as you have) like this:
alias bfg='java -jar /usr/local/bin/bfg-1.13.0.jar'
From now on I can use bfg every time I want to run the java program.
What you really need
In Ubuntu what you're looking for is a symbolic link. A symbolic link is created with the ln command on Ubuntu (and all other Unix varieties). See the following example.
In the below example you can see a folder that already exists called pms in my home folder.
Thus its absolute path is /home/ubuntu/pms.
ubuntu@server:~$ ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Mar 25 11:05 pms
Now I change to a mother directory where I want the link, what you are thinking of as an alias, and create the symbolic link with ln -s
ubuntu@server:~$ cd /tmp/
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ ln -s /home/ubuntu/pms myfolder
Now I'm able to change directory to this alias as you understand it.
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ cd myfolder/
ubuntu@server:/tmp/myfolder$ pwd
/tmp/myfolder
To be clear, an alias is a completely different thing in Unix & Linux land. The symbolic link I have made can be seen by listing the /tmp directory where I created it.
ubuntu@server:/tmp/myfolder$ cd /tmp
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ ls -l
total 16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 16 Mar 25 11:06 myfolder -> /home/ubuntu/pms
The contents of the /tmp/myfolder are one and the same as /home/ubuntu/pms.
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Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now when I make changes to certain files using the above link, the changes will carry through?
– Sid
yesterday
Yes. Files and folders seen and created in the symlinked folder (from the example)/tmp/myfolderand in the original/home/ubuntu/pmsare actually the same files on the disk.
– lantrix
3 hours ago
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What you're trying
You may be thinking of the term alias as defined and used in Mac OS.
For ubuntu the command alias does something totally different. The command you have used is for creating new commands so you don't have to remember a longer command, or a longer command you type so much it is quicker to type the alias. For example, if I don't want to keep typing this command to launch a program:
java -jar /usr/local/bin/bfg-1.13.0.jar
You could create an alias called bfg in my Unix profile (or ~/.bashrc as you have) like this:
alias bfg='java -jar /usr/local/bin/bfg-1.13.0.jar'
From now on I can use bfg every time I want to run the java program.
What you really need
In Ubuntu what you're looking for is a symbolic link. A symbolic link is created with the ln command on Ubuntu (and all other Unix varieties). See the following example.
In the below example you can see a folder that already exists called pms in my home folder.
Thus its absolute path is /home/ubuntu/pms.
ubuntu@server:~$ ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Mar 25 11:05 pms
Now I change to a mother directory where I want the link, what you are thinking of as an alias, and create the symbolic link with ln -s
ubuntu@server:~$ cd /tmp/
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ ln -s /home/ubuntu/pms myfolder
Now I'm able to change directory to this alias as you understand it.
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ cd myfolder/
ubuntu@server:/tmp/myfolder$ pwd
/tmp/myfolder
To be clear, an alias is a completely different thing in Unix & Linux land. The symbolic link I have made can be seen by listing the /tmp directory where I created it.
ubuntu@server:/tmp/myfolder$ cd /tmp
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ ls -l
total 16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 16 Mar 25 11:06 myfolder -> /home/ubuntu/pms
The contents of the /tmp/myfolder are one and the same as /home/ubuntu/pms.
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Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now when I make changes to certain files using the above link, the changes will carry through?
– Sid
yesterday
Yes. Files and folders seen and created in the symlinked folder (from the example)/tmp/myfolderand in the original/home/ubuntu/pmsare actually the same files on the disk.
– lantrix
3 hours ago
add a comment |
What you're trying
You may be thinking of the term alias as defined and used in Mac OS.
For ubuntu the command alias does something totally different. The command you have used is for creating new commands so you don't have to remember a longer command, or a longer command you type so much it is quicker to type the alias. For example, if I don't want to keep typing this command to launch a program:
java -jar /usr/local/bin/bfg-1.13.0.jar
You could create an alias called bfg in my Unix profile (or ~/.bashrc as you have) like this:
alias bfg='java -jar /usr/local/bin/bfg-1.13.0.jar'
From now on I can use bfg every time I want to run the java program.
What you really need
In Ubuntu what you're looking for is a symbolic link. A symbolic link is created with the ln command on Ubuntu (and all other Unix varieties). See the following example.
In the below example you can see a folder that already exists called pms in my home folder.
Thus its absolute path is /home/ubuntu/pms.
ubuntu@server:~$ ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Mar 25 11:05 pms
Now I change to a mother directory where I want the link, what you are thinking of as an alias, and create the symbolic link with ln -s
ubuntu@server:~$ cd /tmp/
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ ln -s /home/ubuntu/pms myfolder
Now I'm able to change directory to this alias as you understand it.
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ cd myfolder/
ubuntu@server:/tmp/myfolder$ pwd
/tmp/myfolder
To be clear, an alias is a completely different thing in Unix & Linux land. The symbolic link I have made can be seen by listing the /tmp directory where I created it.
ubuntu@server:/tmp/myfolder$ cd /tmp
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ ls -l
total 16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 16 Mar 25 11:06 myfolder -> /home/ubuntu/pms
The contents of the /tmp/myfolder are one and the same as /home/ubuntu/pms.
answered yesterday
lantrixlantrix
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Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now when I make changes to certain files using the above link, the changes will carry through?
– Sid
yesterday
Yes. Files and folders seen and created in the symlinked folder (from the example)/tmp/myfolderand in the original/home/ubuntu/pmsare actually the same files on the disk.
– lantrix
3 hours ago
add a comment |
What you're trying
You may be thinking of the term alias as defined and used in Mac OS.
For ubuntu the command alias does something totally different. The command you have used is for creating new commands so you don't have to remember a longer command, or a longer command you type so much it is quicker to type the alias. For example, if I don't want to keep typing this command to launch a program:
java -jar /usr/local/bin/bfg-1.13.0.jar
You could create an alias called bfg in my Unix profile (or ~/.bashrc as you have) like this:
alias bfg='java -jar /usr/local/bin/bfg-1.13.0.jar'
From now on I can use bfg every time I want to run the java program.
What you really need
In Ubuntu what you're looking for is a symbolic link. A symbolic link is created with the ln command on Ubuntu (and all other Unix varieties). See the following example.
In the below example you can see a folder that already exists called pms in my home folder.
Thus its absolute path is /home/ubuntu/pms.
ubuntu@server:~$ ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Mar 25 11:05 pms
Now I change to a mother directory where I want the link, what you are thinking of as an alias, and create the symbolic link with ln -s
ubuntu@server:~$ cd /tmp/
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ ln -s /home/ubuntu/pms myfolder
Now I'm able to change directory to this alias as you understand it.
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ cd myfolder/
ubuntu@server:/tmp/myfolder$ pwd
/tmp/myfolder
To be clear, an alias is a completely different thing in Unix & Linux land. The symbolic link I have made can be seen by listing the /tmp directory where I created it.
ubuntu@server:/tmp/myfolder$ cd /tmp
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ ls -l
total 16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 16 Mar 25 11:06 myfolder -> /home/ubuntu/pms
The contents of the /tmp/myfolder are one and the same as /home/ubuntu/pms.
answered yesterday
lantrixlantrix
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What you're trying
You may be thinking of the term alias as defined and used in Mac OS.
For ubuntu the command alias does something totally different. The command you have used is for creating new commands so you don't have to remember a longer command, or a longer command you type so much it is quicker to type the alias. For example, if I don't want to keep typing this command to launch a program:
java -jar /usr/local/bin/bfg-1.13.0.jar
You could create an alias called bfg in my Unix profile (or ~/.bashrc as you have) like this:
alias bfg='java -jar /usr/local/bin/bfg-1.13.0.jar'
From now on I can use bfg every time I want to run the java program.
What you really need
In Ubuntu what you're looking for is a symbolic link. A symbolic link is created with the ln command on Ubuntu (and all other Unix varieties). See the following example.
In the below example you can see a folder that already exists called pms in my home folder.
Thus its absolute path is /home/ubuntu/pms.
ubuntu@server:~$ ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Mar 25 11:05 pms
Now I change to a mother directory where I want the link, what you are thinking of as an alias, and create the symbolic link with ln -s
ubuntu@server:~$ cd /tmp/
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ ln -s /home/ubuntu/pms myfolder
Now I'm able to change directory to this alias as you understand it.
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ cd myfolder/
ubuntu@server:/tmp/myfolder$ pwd
/tmp/myfolder
To be clear, an alias is a completely different thing in Unix & Linux land. The symbolic link I have made can be seen by listing the /tmp directory where I created it.
ubuntu@server:/tmp/myfolder$ cd /tmp
ubuntu@server:/tmp$ ls -l
total 16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 16 Mar 25 11:06 myfolder -> /home/ubuntu/pms
The contents of the /tmp/myfolder are one and the same as /home/ubuntu/pms.
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Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now when I make changes to certain files using the above link, the changes will carry through?
– Sid
yesterday
Yes. Files and folders seen and created in the symlinked folder (from the example)/tmp/myfolderand in the original/home/ubuntu/pmsare actually the same files on the disk.
– lantrix
3 hours ago
add a comment |
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now when I make changes to certain files using the above link, the changes will carry through?
– Sid
yesterday
Yes. Files and folders seen and created in the symlinked folder (from the example)/tmp/myfolderand in the original/home/ubuntu/pmsare actually the same files on the disk.
– lantrix
3 hours ago
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now when I make changes to certain files using the above link, the changes will carry through?
– Sid
yesterday
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now when I make changes to certain files using the above link, the changes will carry through?
– Sid
yesterday
Yes. Files and folders seen and created in the symlinked folder (from the example)
/tmp/myfolder and in the original /home/ubuntu/pms are actually the same files on the disk.– lantrix
3 hours ago
Yes. Files and folders seen and created in the symlinked folder (from the example)
/tmp/myfolder and in the original /home/ubuntu/pms are actually the same files on the disk.– lantrix
3 hours ago
add a comment |
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If you use
alias "myfolder"="cd /home/xxx/pms"andsource ~/.bashrcyou'll be able to access your folder typing onlymyfolderon the terminal...– Rafael Muynarsk
yesterday