Aliases
For Revolver version 3.1+
An alias is an additional short name given to a command so a user can use the new name to refer to the original command. Aliases also support providing parameters to the command being aliased, so users can specify different behaviour for their command as well.
Aliases are created using the alias
command.
Aliased commands still retain their original command name. The command will be accessible through it's original name and all alias names for the command.
Simple Alias
The following example shows a simple alias, providing an alternate name for the ls
command.
alias dir ls
Now the user can use either ls
or dir
to list the children of the current item.
Providing Parameters
Aliases can also supply parameters to pass to the command being aliased, to make using the same parameters less repeatative. The following example shows how to provide parameters to the command being aliased.
alias ssf sf -nv
The above command creates an alias ssf
which executes the sf
command passing the -nv
parameter.
Listing Aliases for Commands
You can see the aliases that have been set for a command using the bind
command without any parameters. This will list all commands and the class implementing the command, with aliases following the class name in brackets.
Remove an Alias
An alias can be removed by using the alias
command and just passing the alias name, without any command.
The below example removes the above dir
alias for the ls
command.
alias dir
If you attempt to remove an alias which does not exist, you'll recieve an error that the alias was not found.