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You might find that in your daily computer work, there are some commands that are long and you execute quite often. Sometimes it may also be a series of commands that you execute in a row that you do quite often. It may be worth it to write a custom function that wraps these lines of code into a short, so that you do not have to type all of these commands anymore.

We have already discussed one such function in a previous section:

# easier viewing of tab separated files
function coltab {
    column -t -s $'\t' $1 | less -S
}