Make symbolic link or alias
 

How can I make a symbolic links or aliases which are point to another location?

ln -s for symbolic link

you can use the alias command to create aliases

e.g.
alias cp="cp -v "

symlink
 

This may be of some help.

Lets say you are in your home directory and want to create a file which is really somewhere else. Lets use /etc/inittab as a test.

ln -s give_it_a_name_file /etc/inittab

This will make a file named give_it_a_name_file in your home directory that is really a link to /etc/inittab

Good Luck

Re: symlink
 

No, this will make an error :-)

correct form is

you are right and I am ?
 

what I should have shown is

ln -s /etc/inittab give_it_a_name

next time I will engage brain before posting.

Thanks for getting me organized.

if you wanna make an alias permanently, you can add a line (eg. alias cp="cp -i") into the file ~/.bashrc

hope that helps. ^_^