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Asked: 2026-06-09T19:59:34+00:00

I’m running some code on a fairly locked-down cluster. I’m still figuring out what

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I’m running some code on a fairly locked-down cluster. I’m still figuring out what I can and can’t do on this machine (e.g. I can’t edit my own .bashrc, but I can set up RSA authentication for SSH).

Anyway, it appears that the cluster has disallowed using alias. When I do alias tinyName=/path/to/really_really_long_executable_filename, typing the command tinyName gives command not found.

Assuming that alias is off limits, are there any alternatives to alias that allow me to avoid typing /path/to/really_really_long_executable_filename every time?

P.S. The machine that I’m running on is NERSC Carver, and I haven’t yet found list of which Linux commands are off-limits on this cluster.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Aside from configuring your shell correctly, you can create alias “scripts” and put them in your PATH. It’s suboptimal, but might be appropriate for your target.

    e.g.:

    sudo sh -c "echo '/path/to/really_really_long_executable_filename' > /usr/local/bin/tinyname"
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/tinyname
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