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legendary alias lets you create short, memorable names for the often-cryptic App Names that Epic assigns to games (for example, 9d2d0eb64d5c44529cece33fe2a46482 for Grand Theft Auto V). Once an alias is registered, you can use it in place of the App Name in any Legendary command. Legendary also generates automatic aliases from game titles (e.g. wog for World of Goo) unless you have disabled that behaviour in your config — the alias command manages your custom additions on top of those.

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Usage

legendary alias [-h] <add|rename|remove|list> [<App name/Old alias>] [<New alias>]

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Actions

ActionPositional argumentsDescription
add<App name> <alias>Create a new alias pointing to the given App Name
rename<old alias> <new alias>Rename an existing alias
remove<alias>Delete an alias
list[<App name>]List all aliases, or only the aliases for a specific App Name

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Examples

List all current aliases: 
legendary alias list
Add a custom alias for a game: 
legendary alias add "World of Goo" wog
Rename an existing alias: 
legendary alias rename wog worldofgoo
Remove an alias: 
legendary alias remove worldofgoo
List all aliases registered for a specific game: 
legendary alias list "World of Goo"

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Using Aliases in Other Commands

Once created, an alias can be used wherever an App Name is accepted: 
legendary launch wog
legendary sync-saves wog
legendary install wog
Legendary stores aliases in ~/.config/legendary/config.ini under the [Legendary.aliases] section. You can also add aliases there directly:
[Legendary.aliases]
wog = WorldOfGooGameAppName
gtav = 9d2d0eb64d5c44529cece33fe2a46482
Automatically generated aliases (derived from game titles) are read-only and cannot be edited with the alias command. To prevent Legendary from generating them, set disable_auto_aliasing = true in the [Legendary] section of your config file.

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