Unix for lazy people

I am a very efficient lazy person. I don’t like to type seven characters when two will suffice. I think Unix is a fantastic development environment. However, the overly long, verbose commands irritate me slightly. So I use the following aliases and shell functions a = tail -f ${ORACLE\_HOME}/rdbms/log/alert\_PRD.log l = ls ll = ls -l up = cd .. x = rm -fr \* z = wall 'Anyone fancy a quickie after work ?...

January 27, 2006