It’s easy to create aliases and some of them can save you a lot of time and trouble. Stored in one of your startup files (e.g., .profile), they can provide a modestly easier environment for your work.

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When one of only a handful of Windows servers that I manage dropped off my radar for a while, I wasn’t sure what to think. I had been running an application, for which this system was the server and ...