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		gphil on Jan 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to Unix shell For some reason I never thought of doing this before: `alias might='ssh matt@might.net'` So you can do things like "might df" as he mentions. This seems super-useful if you deal with remote servers.

phren0logy on Jan 10, 2012 [–]

You might be better off using a .ssh/config file, as in this tutorial:

http://fabien.potencier.org/article/19/quick-ssh-tip

It saves about as many keystrokes, also works in scp, and won't clutter up your shell dotfiles.

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