An alias is an alternative name. In computer science, the most common contexts are command aliases in shells, column aliases in databases, or variable references in languages like C++.
For bash aliases use the bash-alias tag.
Questions tagged [alias]
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Namespace aliasing in F#?
I have a name clashing problem while opening some .Net assemblies in my F# code using
open System.IO
The only option I found and use now is to provide the full names of types for conflicting types, but this is a little bit boring.
Is there any…
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Fixing 403 Forbidden on alias directory with Apache
I am trying to setup an alias to point to some directory on my filesystem not in DocumentRoot. Now I get a 403 Forbidden response. These are the steps taken:
1. edit http.conf, adding:
Alias /example…
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sublime symlink disappeared after upgrading to El Capitan
I have just upgraded to OS X El Capitan and subl . command stopped working with the zsh: command not found: subl error message.
I have run the following command as suggested in other posts:
sudo ln -s /Applications/Sublime\…
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Why use class aliases?
Why would we use the class_alias function? For example:
Class Test {
public function __construct(){
echo "Class initialized";
}
}
class_alias("Test", "AnotherName");
$instance = new AnotherName(); # equivalent to $instance = new…
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DELETE FROM `table` AS `alias` ... WHERE `alias`.`column` ... why syntax error?
I tried this with MySQL:
DELETE FROM `contact_hostcommands_relation` AS `ContactHostCommand` WHERE (`ContactHostCommand`.`chr_id` = 999999) LIMIT 1
And I get this:
#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to…
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How to create Sql Synonym or "Alias" for Database Name?
I'm using ms sql 2008 and trying to create a database name that references another database. For example 'Dev', 'Test', 'Demo' would be database names that i could reference from my multiple config files, but each name would point to another…
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Can I create an alias of a type in Golang?
I'm struggling with my learning of Go.
I found this neat implementation of a Set in go: gopkg.in/fatih/set.v0, but I'd prefer naming my sets with a more explicit name that set.Set, doing something like:
type View set.Set
In essence, I want my View…
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Why do backslashes prevent alias expansion?
In the first part of my question I will provide some background info as a
service to the community. The second part contains the actual question.
Part I
Assume I've created the following alias:
alias ls='ls -r'
I know how to temporarily unalias…
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How can I make an alias to a non-function member attribute in a Python class?
I'm in the midst of writing a Python library API and I often run into the scenario where my users want multiple different names for the same functions and variables.
If I have a Python class with the function foo() and I want to make an alias to it…
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How do I remove or replace a built in alias in powershell?
Powershell includes a built-in alias diff for the Compare-Object cmdlet. This is really annoying for me, as I'm used to using the Unix diff command.
Is there a way to remove the built in diff alias, or otherwise override it?
I've tried:
del…
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.profile not working from terminal in mac
I had a .profile file that I was reading and using aliases from in my terminal, but at some point the aliases stopped working for no clear reason (other commands were still working).
Thinking to make a quick fix, I deleted (rm) and recreated my…
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Creating permanent executable aliases
I have MySQL installed (MAMP, Mac OS X) but need to call it by the full path each time I access it from the shell. I created an alias: alias mysql='/Applications/MAMP/Library/Bin/mysql, but this only lasts as long as my terminal/Bash session. …
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How to alias a built-in type in C#?
So in C++, I'm used to being able to do:
typedef int PeerId;
This allows me to make a type more self-documenting, but additionally also allows me to make PeerId represent a different type at any time without changing all of the code. I could even…
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How to use PowerShell alias cd a spec directory?
On Linux
alias cdt='cd /usr/a'
make a alias that when I type
cdt
I change the workpath to /use/a
On PowerShell
Set-Alias cdt "cd F://a"
It seems not work
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Why doesn't Oracle SQL allow us to use column aliases in GROUP BY clauses?
This is a situation I'm generally facing while writing SQL queries. I think that writing the whole column (e.g. long case expressions, sum functions with long parameters) instead of aliases in GROUP BY expressions makes the query longer and less…
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