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title: Useful commands
description: Setup usefuls aliases and discover important commands
weight: 20
---

## Useful Aliases

To manage your Cavaliba deployment, you may issue commands from the command line. 

These shell aliases are useful:

```bash
$ alias cavaliba="docker exec -it cavaliba_app python manage.py cavaliba "
$ alias cavmanage="docker exec -it cavaliba_app python manage.py "
$ alias cavdb="docker exec -it cavaliba_db "
```

Add them to your `~/.bashrc` for persistence.

You can now type:

```bash
$ cavmanage --help
$ cavaliba --help
$ cavdb whoami             # shell access to the database container
```



