Aliases on Linux commands

Hey there. I'm still learning stuff every day, but I just found something that saves me time when updating my Arch Linux system, and I thought maybe it could help you too.

You know how we always type:

sudo pacman -Syu

Well, I got tired of writing that long command every time, so I made a quick alias. Here’s how:

echo "alias update='sudo pacman -Syu'" >> ~/.bashrc
  source ~/.bashrc

Now I just type update and it handles everything. This works on .zshrc too if you're using zsh.

Installing PHP on Arch Linux

So you're on Arch and want to mess with PHP? Maybe for a local test server or to practice backend stuff? Here's how I did it on my own system — super quick and worked fine.

First, update your system (just in case you haven't already):

sudo pacman -Syu

Then install PHP and some common extras:

sudo pacman -S php php-apache

If you want to test PHP quickly, just create a simple file like this:

echo "" > test.php

Then run the built-in PHP server:

php -S localhost:8000

Boom! Open http://localhost:8000/test.php in your browser and you should see PHP info. Easy stuff.