> just out of curiousity, does this do the exact same thing?
> i mean, in one case you're making a symbolic link and in the other an
> alias.

No, it's not the exact same thing. The symbolic link is an actual file  
in your file system (it's visible if you do `ls /usr/local/bin` for  
example), while the `alias` command tells your shell that it should  
insert the long form each time it sees the short form.

But for all practical purposes I can think of, both ways have the same  
effect.

Nico

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