Go to the version of this page provided by the dnf project

---

yum-aliases(1) — Linux manual page

yum-aliases(1)                                            yum-aliases(1)

NAME

       yum aliases plugin

SYNOPSIS

       yum [options] alias

DESCRIPTION

       This plugin changes other commands in yum, much like the alias
       command in bash. There are a couple of notable differences from
       shell style aliases though. The alias command has three forms:
        * alias
        * alias command
        * alias command result

       The first form lists all current aliases with their final result,
       the second form looks up a "command" and shows it's final result
       or an error message. The last form creates a new alias.

Explanation of alias to final result conversion

       When you type an aliased command, like "yum --disableexcludes UPT
       lsu" using the default aliases, the yum-aliases plugin first
       takes the first "command", by skipping over any options, and then
       looks up the result (in this case "UPT" is converted to
       "--enablerepo=updates-testing"). If there is a match, then it
       will replace the aliased "command" in the argument list and try
       again (again skipping over any options). By convention, in the
       default aliases list, alias "commands" that are in all CAPS only
       add options so you can join together a chain of them before any
       real command or aliased command.

       There are two things that can alter the above, if you have the
       "recursive" configuration option set to off then alias processing
       will stop after the first alias to command substitution. Also,
       like in shell aliases, if the result starts with \ then alias
       processing will stop.

EXAMPLES

       To create a new alias command called "rm" which does the same
       thing as the command "remove" use:

              yum alias rm remove

       To always add the --skip-broken --disableexcludes=all --obsoletes
       options to the update command (but leaving the upgrade option
       alone), you could use:

              yum alias update \update  --skip-broken
              --disableexcludes=all --obsoletes

       To override the default "up" alias to use the above update
       command, and never ask for confirmation, you could use:

              yum alias up update -y

AUTHORS

              James Antill <james@and.org>

SEE ALSO

       yum-utils(1) yum(1)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of the yum-utils (Yum Package Manager
       utilities) project.  Information about the project can be found
       at ⟨https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum⟩.  It is not
       known how to report bugs for this man page; if you know, please
       send a mail to man-pages@man7.org.  This page was obtained from
       the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum-utils.git⟩ on
       2024-06-14.  (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
       that was found in the repository was 2020-03-11.)  If you
       discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page,
       or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for
       the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the
       information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original
       manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org

James Antill                 31 March 2008                yum-aliases(1)