The whole point of Unix aliases is to allow you to type less, make fewer mistakes, and not have quite so much to remember. They are generally act as good shortcuts to getting a lot of work done. Here ...

With the right set of functions and aliases, Unix users can save themselves time and trouble and make their Unix accounts a lot nicer to use. In today’s “how to”, we’re going to look at a simple ...

Ever wish you could take a look at the device aliases on a Solaris system without having to descend all the way down to the ok prompt? Well, you can. By issuing the proper version of the prtconf ...

Before we even get started with this topic, let me acknowledge all of you readers out there who are wondering why I didn’t call this week’s column “Shoving Technology Backwards”. Granted, few of us ...

You wouldn't know it just by looking, but Mac OS X has two types of aliases. The first are the traditional aliases, which work the same way they do in Mac OS 9. The second type are called symbolic ...

Apple has long provided the ability to create desktop aliases in macOS by Command-Option dragging. Here's how to do it from the macOS Dock. Given most macOS desktop items such as files, apps, disk ...