From Linux to Mac OS X – Tip 1 : The Aliases
Here are a serie of tips when developing under Mac OS X after mostly 8 years in the Linux word.
First tip : The aliases in the Terminal (because I really think that the Terminal is cool 
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1. Create a .profile file in your $HOME folder
cd $HOME
touch .profile
2. Add aliases in this .profile file
pico .profile
and then syntax is alias foo=’bar’. For example, here are some of my aliases :
alias tx=’open /Applications/TextEdit.app/’
alias mvn2=’/Users/chamerling/Developpement/bin/mvn/apache-maven-2.0.10/bin/mvn’
alias meclipse=’mvn2 eclipse:eclipse’
alias mpetals=’mvn2 archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://petals.ow2.org’
