Alias is a personalized name for your account to be displayed instead of the account number. Use names like “Main account”, “Partners account EUR” or name of a person/company to more easily recognize them in the Internet Bank.

What is my bank account alias?

Every account registered with Bankline is identified by a name or number. This can be the account name or account number plus sort code. Alternatively, you can give the account a new name – an account alias – of up to 35 characters.

What is a display alias?

The alias utility defines an alias name that has the specified value. If only name is specified, qsh displays the name and value of the alias.

What is bank account name means?

(əˈkaʊnt ˈhəʊldə) the person whose name is on a bank account. Enter the name of the account holder (as shown in your cheque book). Accounts are labelled dormant by banks when they can no longer find the account holder.

What do you mean account alias?

An account alias is an easily recognized name or label representing a general ledger account number. During a transaction, you can use the account alias instead of an account number to refer to the account.

How do I display an alias?

To view the alias for a particular name, enter the command alias followed by the name of the alias. Most Linux distributions define at least some aliases. Enter an alias command to see which aliases are in effect. You can delete the aliases you do not want from the appropriate startup file.

Does the account name matter?

It is important to get the BSB and account number right, because banking systems only use the account number when processing the payment. The account name is not used to transfer the payment. If you are making a big payment, we recommend you transfer a small amount first and check that the payment has been received.

Is account name required for bank transfer?

At present, anyone wanting to transfer money enters the intended recipients name, account number and sort code. However, the name is not checked.

How do I know if alias is working?

To check if the alias is defined in your rc files, it needs to be checked manually e.g. by: [ $(grep ^alias foo= ~/. bash* ~/. profile /etc/bash* /etc/profile) ] && echo Exists.