Talk:Alias (command)

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Smitty the smith 17:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC) I think this page is good as-is. However I'm not the Most-knowledgable-man-in-the-world (tm) so I was wondering what should be added to this "stub" to make in complete.

I've reorganised the article, added some extra info and removed the stub status. I can't imagine this article growing much more, so it's no longer worthy of the stub status in my opinion. Johnnykimble 16:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I've also replaced the 'anonymous alias' section with 'Overriding aliases'. Anonymous aliases isn't a term that seems to be very well known, so the overriding aliases section describes the same thing with more general terminology. Johnnykimble 16:07, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

This needs to be split.

This needs to be split into two articles ("alias unix shell command" and "alias windows shell command") —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brosenthal (talk • contribs) 05:10, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Need is way overstating the issue. The POSIX command is different than the similar feature in Command Prompt and somewhat different than the commands (plural) in PowerShell. But, if we start down the slippery slope, where do we stop? It's not clear how to organize things that have so many variations. For example, the syntax in csh and tcsh seems to be different than whatever is implied as other linux/unix variants (bash?). Do we need one for csh&tcsh and one for other unix/linux? Or maybe one for csh, one for tcsh and one for bash and ones for every other shell. For the most part, similar-functionality commands are split on Windows/nix. But cd (command) and echo (command) cover Windows, Unix, Linux and a zillion other environments. I lean towards less than more fragmentation. FWIW, I think it's arguable whether we _should_ have separate articles for ls vs. dir (command) and such commands that have a different name yet the same basic function Stevebroshar (talk) 12:29, 23 April 2025 (UTC)