# File alias

A character string for referencing the pathname to a file or a directory of files.

### Description

A file alias is a character string for referencing the pathname to a file or directory of files on disk. Whenever the file folio parses pathnames, it looks for path components starting with $, and treats the rest of the component at the name of an alias. The file folio then finds the alias of that name, and extracts a replacement string from the alias to use as the path component.

### Folio

file

### Item Type

FILEALIASNODE

### Create

`CreateAlias()`

### Delete

`DeleteItem`()