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Where does the terminal command (reboot) live? If I wanted to change it to "rebooot" or "rbt" what would I need to do?

Without creating a separate bash script for a completely separate command.

c0rp
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user2218260
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  • Read http://askubuntu.com/questions/74746/create-shortcut-from-command and http://askubuntu.com/questions/1414/how-to-create-a-permanent-alias – c0rp Oct 17 '14 at 05:47

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You can find where most executables are using "which":

~$ which reboot

/sbin/reboot

You can make an alias using "alias":

~$ alias rbt="reboot"
user162988
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Reboot is an init script in /etc/init.d and the binary is in /sbin. You can create a custom bash command and name it rbt to do the same thing as reboot.

echo "rbt(){ reboot }" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
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  • If you use alias, you'll also want to put that into your bash_profile, otherwise it will not be available next time you reboot. – Brandon Johnson Oct 17 '14 at 04:57
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If you want it to work in all shells, create a link (it's system wide and shell independant):

ln -s $(which reboot) /bin/rbt

This creates a link from where the executable reboot lays to /bin/rbt. When typing rbt in a shell reboot is executed instead.

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