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Comment by fuzztester

7 months ago

There is a shell built-in called alias.

You can use it to map the short name to the long name if you prefer, although people usually do it the other way around, to save on typing.

;)

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fuzztester

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remram  7 months ago

I didn't understand, how would that help with discovering the full name of "pv"?

  • fuzztester  7 months ago

    it wouldn't. it was a joke.

fuzztester  7 months ago

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