Seven Across » linux http://sevenacross.com home of a hungry and foolish boy Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:06:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Alternative To – open-source alternatives to applications http://sevenacross.com/2009/05/alternative-to-open-source-alternatives-to-applications/ http://sevenacross.com/2009/05/alternative-to-open-source-alternatives-to-applications/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 13:01:05 +0000 sukritd http://sevenacross.com/?p=239 Alternative To is a website that gives you a list of open-source alternatives to every application out there. The sign is well designed, easy to use, and has a great database for all platforms.

]]> http://sevenacross.com/2009/05/alternative-to-open-source-alternatives-to-applications/feed/ 0 How to find out if a Linux command has an alias http://sevenacross.com/2009/04/how-to-find-out-if-a-linux-command-has-an-alias/ http://sevenacross.com/2009/04/how-to-find-out-if-a-linux-command-has-an-alias/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:20:29 +0000 sukritd http://sevenacross.com/?p=188 Here’s a nifty Linux trick to find out if a command has an alias set. If you want to find out if the command ls has an alias set use the following command:

type -all ls
ls is aliased to `ls –color=tty’
ls is /bin/ls

You can see in the output that ls has one alias in ls –color=tty.

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