Mac Geekery

I stumbled across this blog and thought it interesting. ( I have a semi off topic question though )

I have been trying to figure out how to create “alias” via the commandline for mac.
By alias I mean the ones in the GUI (synonymous with m1cr0scoffs “shortcuts”) not the term used to alias terms in a shell script.

GUI aliases have a distinct advantage over the links you can create via the CLI using ln,
being that you can move the file of an alias to a different directory and still have it work, and it can point to files across devices ( say my backup lacie drive folder ) this is where the ln command comes woefully short. I noticed that I can follow aliases via the command line just like any other link, but I cannot create them.

I guess that was a long rant to ask, if there is any way you know how to create Aliases via the commandline.