# Two cool aliases I noticed in the env file

**URL:** <https://openziti.discourse.group/t/two-cool-aliases-i-noticed-in-the-env-file/637>\
**Category:** Building/Development\
**Created:** [July 5, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/two-cool-aliases-i-noticed-in-the-env-file/637 "2022-07-05T19:07:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![markamind](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/markamind/32/157_2.png) [@markamind](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/markamind)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/two-cool-aliases-i-noticed-in-the-env-file/637/1 "2022-07-05T19:07:40Z")

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I just saw these… very helpful.

**alias**  **zec** \*\*=‘ **ziti edge** ’\*\*

**alias**  **zlogin** \*\*=‘ **ziti edge login “${ZITI\_EDGE\_CTRL\_ADVERTISED}” -u “${ZITI\_USER-}” -p “${ZITI\_PWD}” -c “${ZITI\_PKI}/${ZITI\_EDGE\_CONTROLLER\_INTERMEDIATE\_NAME}/certs/${ZITI\_EDGE\_CONTROLLER\_INTERMEDIATE\_NAME}.cert”** ’\*\*

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**Author:** ![TheLumberjack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/thelumberjack/32/113_2.png) [@TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/TheLumberjack)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/two-cool-aliases-i-noticed-in-the-env-file/637/2 "2022-07-05T19:18:24Z")

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For anyone else finding this discourse post - these aliases are emitted into the “$ZITI\_HOME/$(hostname).env” file if you run the quickstart or if you exec into one the docker containers we provide and source the file.

zlogin and zitiLogin are exactly the same thing. I’m not sure why I left `zlogin` around like that… I probably will end up removing `zlogin` so - don’t expect that forever 🙂