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Some useful aliases

By Snool

Just some useful aliases for early game

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Category: Gameplay Basics

Languages: English

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28 Dec, 2021 @ 12:53pm

2 Jun, 2023 @ 4:17am

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Overview

Alias

Buy everything from darkweb

Get root access and install a backdoor

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Alias

As in-game help says, alias enables a replacement of a word with another string. Also game provides us with an example: alias "nuke=run NUKE.exe"
But we can make a chain of commands by separating them with semicolon (;), what can help with automating some actions.

Buy everything from darkweb

Update: in version 1.3.0 was added buy all option to 'buy'.

Alias useful after Augmentation. Buys everything except Formulas.exe from darkweb, if you have TOR browser.

alias "rebuy=buy BruteSSH.exe; buy FTPCrack.exe; buy relaySMTP.exe; buy HTTPWorm.exe; buy SQLInject.exe; buy ServerProfiler.exe; buy DeepscanV1.exe; buy DeepscanV2.exe; buy AutoLink.exe"

If you want, you can add Formulas.exe by adding

buy Formulas.exe

To use this alias just enter

rebuy

Get root access and install a backdoor

Uses all your exe's, nukes and installs a backdoor.

alias "root=run BruteSSH.exe;run FTPCrack.exe;run relaySMTP.exe;run HTTPworm.exe;run SQLInject.exe;run NUKE.exe;backdoor"

To use this alias just enter

root

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I hope that this aliases will be helpful for someone on different stages of the game.

This is my first guide ever, so I'm open for criticism. Also, English is not my native language, so sorry if something seems odd.

Changelog:
02.06.2023: changed aliases for 2.3 update

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Schnatze 3 Sep, 2024 @ 2:07pm

Its not worth making aliases like
alias "s3=scan-analyze 3"
alias "s5=scan-analyze 5"
alias "s1=scan-analyze 10"

because you can use arguments with aliases like
sa 3
sa 5
sa 10

airors 31 Dec, 2023 @ 8:11pm

Note that you don't need DeepscanV1.exe if you're just going to buy DeepscanV2.exe also. V2 will give you a depth of up to 10 even if you don't have V1.

Here are some of my aliases that don't involve my own programs:
alias "c=connect"
alias "open1=run BruteSSH.exe"; alias "open2=run FTPCrack.exe"; etc.
alias "s-=scan-analyze"
alias "sa=scan; analyze"
alias "sb=scan; backdoor"
alias "s3=scan-analyze 3"
alias "s5=scan-analyze 5"
alias "s1=scan-analyze 10"

secret cheeseman 26 Dec, 2023 @ 2:50am

@JaxterSmith you can just... make a script and alias the usage of that script? better yet, just make a deployer worm?

Caladrel 3 Jun, 2023 @ 3:32pm

@Snool They sent out another hotfix to update that not long after I posted. Now both versions of the command syntax will work.

Snool [author] 2 Jun, 2023 @ 4:19am

Thx for the info @Caladrel. I don't play currently, so didn't know. Updated aliases for 2.3 update.

Caladrel 28 May, 2023 @ 4:23pm

Alias usage has been updated since this was posted - the 2.3 update updated alias from `alias aliasname="value"` to `alias "aliasname=value"`

This was caught and is now mentioned in the in-game documentation correctly. Please reference that if you're having any trouble with the above info.

Wolfebane 27 May, 2023 @ 4:03pm

This doesn't seem to work.

I copy pasted the "root" section and get this result:

Incorrect usage of alias command. Usage: alias [-g] ["aliasname=value"]

swezwho 21 Jan, 2023 @ 3:51pm

@pat - smh... Can't believe I hadn't already aliased vim to vi. Probably every other time I go to edit something, I reflexively type vi...

PorkChopJrxTTV 24 Nov, 2022 @ 6:33am

These are tremendous alias shortcuts! Thank you!

Gherbetto 16 Nov, 2022 @ 6:25am

nice guide!

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