November 28, 2009 — Using aliases in Linux can save you a lot of time. Here's an example:

Instead of typing "cd /var/www/html/" to enter your web directory, now you can enter "www", a savings of at least 14 keystrokes each time you use it.

This one will switch to the usr/sbin directory, restart apache, then switch to your home directory:

You can also just do:

But the earlier example shows how you can string multiple commands together.

Place these aliases in your HOME/.bash_profile file and they will be available each time you login to your machine.

• 1. "At least" 14 keystrokes, because the # of typos increases as the # of characters typed increases.