yum-aliases(1) [centos man page]
yum-aliases(1) yum-aliases(1) NAME
yum aliases plugin SYNOPSIS
yum [options] alias DESCRIPTION
This plugin changes other commands in yum, much like the alias command in bash. There are a couple of notable differences from shell style aliases though. The alias command has three forms: * alias * alias command * alias command result The first form lists all current aliases with their final result, the second form looks up a "command" and shows it's final result or an error message. The last form creates a new alias. Explanation of alias to final result conversion When you type an aliased command, like "yum --disableexcludes UPT lsu" using the default aliases, the yum-aliases plugin first takes the first "command", by skipping over any options, and then looks up the result (in this case "UPT" is converted to "--enablerepo=updates-test- ing"). If there is a match, then it will replace the aliased "command" in the argument list and try again (again skipping over any options). By convention, in the default aliases list, alias "commands" that are in all CAPS only add options so you can join together a chain of them before any real command or aliased command. There are two things that can alter the above, if you have the "recursive" configuration option set to off then alias processing will stop after the first alias to command substitution. Also, like in shell aliases, if the result starts with then alias processing will stop. EXAMPLES
To create a new alias command called "rm" which does the same thing as the command "remove" use: yum alias rm remove To always add the --skip-broken --disableexcludes=all --obsoletes options to the update command (but leaving the upgrade option alone), you could use: yum alias update update --skip-broken --disableexcludes=all --obsoletes To override the default "up" alias to use the above update command, and never ask for confirmation, you could use: yum alias up update -y AUTHORS
James Antill <james@and.org> SEE ALSO
yum-utils(1) yum(1) James Antill 31 March 2008 yum-aliases(1)
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ali(1) General Commands Manual ali(1) NAME
ali - list mail aliases (only available within the message handling system, mh) SYNOPSIS
ali [-alias aliasfile] [-help] [-[no]list] [-[no]normalize] [-user useraddr] [-nouser] [aliases...] OPTIONS
Specifies the alias file to be consulted by ali. You can specify more than one alias file, but each aliasfile must be preceded by -alias. In addition to any alias files that you specify, ali consults the system alias file /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases. You can set up an entry in your so that ali automatically consults an alias file. To do this, add the Aliasfile entry to your pro- file. See mh_profile(4) for more information. Prints a list of the valid options to this command. Prints the addresses on separate lines. If you do not specify the -list option, the addresses are separated by commas and printed on as few lines as possible. Instructs ali to try to track down the official hostname of the address. This can be suppressed by using -nonormalize. The default is -nonormalize. Displays all the aliases that contain a specific name. Instead of listing the addresses that each given alias expands to, ali lists the aliases that expand to include each given address. You must specify the complete user name that you have used in your alias file. The defaults for this command are: -alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases -nolist -nonormalize -nouser DESCRIPTION
The ali command searches the specified mail alias files for each of the given aliases. It creates a list of addresses for those aliases, and displays that list on the screen. PROFILE COMPONENTS
Location of your mail directory. Location of your personal alias file. EXAMPLES
The following example shows how the -user option can be used to list all the aliases containing the address Parker@Venus: % ali -user Parker@Venus Parker@Venus: Group, Reviewers, Badminton FILES
The user profile. The system alias file. The system password file. The system group file. SEE ALSO
mh-alias(4) ali(1)