Aliases in Bash are a useful and powerful way of simplifying commonly used commands/options.  [[linux:zsh|ZSH]] comes with a number of aliases automatically but you may well wish to define your own.  Generally though you're better off writing a short function to do things.

# Aliases

```bash
alias ip='ip -c'
alias shutup='su -c "shutdown -h now"'
alias restart='su -c "reboot"'
alias sleep='su -c "hibernate-ram"'
```

# Functions

There are some very neat [Awesome Command Line Tools](https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services) such as [wttr.in](https:wttr.in/) ([GitHub](https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in)) and [cheat.sh](https://cheat.sh/) ([GitHub](https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sheets)) and so I set up a few functions...

```bash
weather () {
    curl wttr.in/"$@"
}
weather2 () {
    curl v2d.wttr.in/"$@"
}
alias weather_sheffield='curl wttr.in/Sheffield'
alias weather_high_neb='curl wttr.in/High+Neb'

## Linux commands https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sheets
cheat () {
    curl cheat.sh/"$@"
}
```

# Environment Variables

These are not aliases but instead hold key parameters.

```bash
# Add the date/time to 
HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y/%m/%d %T "
```