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If – like me – you do a lot of “tinkering” with your Gentoo installation, you’ll invariably end up typing a lot of commands over and over again.

Aliases save you from having to remember/repeatedly type in these commands. Aliases, in case you are new to them, are command line shortcuts. As such, they can save you a fair bit of time when working in the terminal.

To set up an alias, you use the alias command:
alias aliasname='command'

There are a couple of Gentoo specific aliases that I have set up:

  • unstablemerge—a shortcut to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge
  • retrymerge—saves typing in emerge --resume
  • rc-add—instead of rc-update add
  • rc-del—instead of rc-update delete

Got any more? Leave ‘em in the comments!