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Old 10-23-2013
List of Aliases/Shortcut Characters
I'm looking for a list of the bash aliases. I have found commands that list aliases and expand current lines to show actual value. This is not what I want.

I have been told . is an alias for source, similarly & is fork. How can I list all these special character aliases? Or does a list exists online somewhere?
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Old 10-23-2013
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Originally Posted by mattrm
similarly & is fork.
Incorrect, there is no 'fork' shell command, & is all there is. fork is what it does, rather.

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How can I list all these special character aliases? Or does a list exists online somewhere?
I don't think there are many, if any, more. 'source' is not in all shells, but . is in any bourne shell.
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