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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions what is the DOS equivalent of alias command? Post 302299950 by carlos25 on Sunday 22nd of March 2009 01:21:04 PM

03-22-2009

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I know I'm rather late on this but it might help others...

You can use doskey to create an alias on any version of windows up to Windows XP (I'm not sure if it's available on Vista).

Code:

C:> doskey alias_name=command

doskey will only work within the environment that it's invoked in and if you want the aliases to be available every time you start cmd.exe will need to write a script that will load them upon invoking your cmd prompt (cmd /K "My_Environment_Script.bat").

Example:

I often need to change drives and cd doesn't handle it very well but chdir does. However, the length of the command is tiresome to type every time I need it so I do this...

Code:

doskey cdd=chdir /D %1

So when I type:

cdd F:

The command prompt will change to F:>

More information on DosKey can be found here:

DOSKey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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trace-cmd-options

TRACE-CMD-OPTIONS(1)													      TRACE-CMD-OPTIONS(1)

NAME

       trace-cmd-options - list available options from trace-cmd plugins

SYNOPSIS

       trace-cmd options

DESCRIPTION

       The trace-cmd(1) options command will examine all the trace-cmd plugins that are used by trace-cmd report(1) and list them.

SEE ALSO

       trace-cmd(1), trace-cmd-record(1), trace-cmd-start(1), trace-cmd-stop(1), trace-cmd-extract(1), trace-cmd-reset(1), trace-cmd-split(1),
       trace-cmd-list(1), trace-cmd-listen(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by Steven Rostedt, <rostedt@goodmis.org[1]>

RESOURCES

       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat, Inc. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

NOTES

	1. rostedt@goodmis.org
	   mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org

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