{"id":105,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=105"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"custom-keyboard-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Custom keyboard shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there are lengthy Terminal commands you find yourself typing over and over again, why not create a nice, easy-to-remember shortcut? Unix&#8216; <b>alias<\/b> feature is, of course, part of BeOS, and all you have to do to take advantage of it is to insert aliases on your \/boot\/home\/.profile file.<br \/>\n For example, if you find you always want long, complete directory listings rather than the short, filename only listings provided by <b>ls<\/b>, add this line to your .profile:<br \/>\n<b>alias ls=&#8220;ls -l -a&#8220;<\/b><br \/>\nThe next time you launch Terminal, typing <b>ls<\/b> will remap to the long format. Another useful one might be an alias to FTP to your server, for instance:<br \/>\n<b>alias ftb=&#8220;ftp mysite.dnai.com&#8220;<\/b><br \/>\nUse your imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there are lengthy Terminal commands you find yourself typing over and over again, why not create a nice, easy-to-remember shortcut? Unix&#8216; alias feature is, of course, part of BeOS, and all you have to do to take advantage of it is to insert aliases on your \/boot\/home\/.profile file. For example, if you find you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}