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Date: Sun,  7 Mar 2010 11:58:45 -0700
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ndb and shortening names
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> I wanted to shorten writing some often used addresses like
> penelopa.karlov.mff.cuni.cz
> e.g. in a scp command. I want to only have to write penelopa.

If you don't want to wire down ip addresses in ndb:

penelopa = penelopa.karlov.mff.cuni.cz

and use $penelopa in your commands.