Adding Software Alias On Mac

Jan 28, 2011  Ok, so the problem is that an alias which is broken on my mac os x. I tried to search in the web but every sites told me to control+click the alias, - Get Info, then the 'Select New Original' things. The major problem on my mac is that 'Select New Original' button cannot be clicked, its color looks more greyish (just like another unclicked buttons), don't know why.

  1. To create an alias for an icon, do one of the following: Click the parent icon and choose File – Make Alias. Click the parent icon and press Command+L. Click any file or folder, press and hold down the Command and Option keys, and then drag the file or folder while continuing to.
  2. May 20, 2006  Damn it was all to no avail as I wanted to make an alias to some software instruments on my mac to another mac on an ethernet network but even though we are connected to each other their garage band is not seeing the Software instruments that the alias points to.
  3. The next step is to right- or Control-click on the account you want to add an alias to and select Advanced Options. Be very careful about changing any settings within the following window except.

This guide will explain how to create aliases (sometimes called “shortcuts”) on your Mac.

An alias is a file or folder that points to another file or folder. Initially that might seem rather unnecessary, but the more you use them the more useful you find them. You can move aliases around and not have to worry about or track down the original file. Or create folders full of aliases to specific Apps – eg. a folder with aliases to all of your graphics Apps.
There are a number of ways to create an alias. The easiest is to right-click (or Control + click for single-button mouse folks) the file or folder you want to create an alias of and select Make Alias from the contextual menu.

You can also select the file/folder in Finder and then choose File ->Make Alias

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A third way to create an alias is to hold down the Option and Command keys when you drag and drop a file or folder and instead of moving or copying the file, it will create an alias of it.

Aliases are easily recognizable by the small ‘arrow’ that gets added to the bottom left corner of each icon (see screenshot below).

Another use for aliases is to add a folder full of them to your Dock and use it as a launcher for a custom group of files.

In this article, I would like to share with you a useful way to define aliases for the command prompt. The method described in this article works in all modern Windows versions including Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7. By following the steps below, you will be able to define any desired alias to extend the functionality of the default command processor (cmd.exe) and save your time.

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There is a doskey command available in the command prompt. Using doskey, it is possible to define an alias for a new or existing console command.
For example, almost all users are familiar with the cd command which is used to change the current directory in the command prompt. If the desired directory is located on another drive, you need to use the '/D' switch with the cd command or enter the drive letter in the command prompt explicitly.
For example:

or

Using DOSKEY, it is possible to save your time and define an alias which will allow you to omit the requirement to enter the drive letter and the /D switch. For example:

The following are some special codes in Doskey macro definitions:
$T Command separator. Allows multiple commands in a macro.
$1-$9 Batch parameters. Equivalent to %1-%9 in batch programs.
$* Symbol replaced by everything following the macro name on the command line. We used it in our alias.
Now, we can compare the results without the alias and with the alias.
Without the alias, the cd command will not change the active drive:

With the alias created with DOSKEY, the command prompt will change the active drive and the current folder automatically:

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This is very useful.

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Using DOSKEY, it is possible to define your own aliases. For example, you can create the LS alias for the DIR command to use a common command for directory listing in Windows and Linux. As you may or may not be knowing, LS is a default file listing command in the Linux operating system.

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Or something like this:

Define global aliases in the Windows command prompt

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Alias

The problem with aliases is that they work only for the command prompt instance where you have defined them. To avoid this issue, you can create a new shortcut to cmd.exe or even modify the default one. You need to add the following parameters after the cmd.exe part:

Here the file c:appscmdaliases.cmd is a regular batch file which contains the appropriate DOSKEY calls.

Besides the command prompt, Windows allows defining your own aliases for the Run dialog as well. Refer to the following article: Launch your favorite apps with useful aliases from the Run dialog

That's it. This is a very useful way to define your own command or change the behavior of default commands. I am using these aliases since a very long time. What about you? Are you using aliases in the command prompt or were you not aware of this feature?

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