8 More Bash Tips for Working Faster With the Shell

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This is the second article in this series, and brings eight additional tips for working faster with the shell. Here is the first article of the series, containing 10 tips.
Create aliases for quick access to commands or one-liners

Aliases are handy custom commands which can be used to make shortcuts to various commands, scripts or one-liners. Aliases can be added in the ~/.bashrc file like this:

alias name='command'

Alternately, you can specify an external file and load it in .bashrc, like for example the default one, called .bash_aliases. Edit .bashrc and uncomment or add (if it doesn’t already exist) the following code:

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases