On Friday 29 November 2002 18:04, John Richard Smith wrote: > I see, so symlinks aid initiation by linking commands to devices > and apps and as such > are quite different in nature from a pipe which is , if I > understand correctly, a way > of diverting a stream of data , refered to as standard output, to > the imput side, > refered to as standard input, of another programme. > > So them how do aliases fit into the grand scheme of things in > linux.
Aliases only work on the bash command line AFAIK, and in other shells that support them, while symlinks work just as well in a GUI. Also, an alias can contain parameters: if you're tired of typing rm -f all the time, you can set an alias called rm to that. Then typing <rm myfile> will actually be understood as <rm -f myfile>. Unless you give the full pathname </usr/bin/rm myfile>, then the alias will be ignored. Of course, just to muddy the waters even further, it is possible to write a little shell script with all the parameters you want and symlink or alias to THAT! <g> Ah yes, Linux, never give a user one way to do things when he could have six ...
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