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Aliases are shortcuts for certain commands. For example, if your current directory is /usr/bin and you want to navigate quickly to /var/cache/apt/archives you can do a “cd /var/cache/apt/archives”, but this is quite long and you probably want to save time. So this is where aliases come in help. You can do only a “archive” or a “pak” command and the same action is accomplished.

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