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Aliases

Aliases in the Korn shell allow you to create your own commands. You can simply rename existing commands, or you can group commands together to create entirely new commands. This feature is also available in the C shell, but the command syntax is slightly different.

The ksh syntax for alias commands:

alias name='value'

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