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SHARE WITH THE CLASS: What aliases are you using? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From bash to zsh and everywhere in between, show me yours and I'll show you mines. Inspire others or get some feedback.

Simply copy & paste the output of alias in your terminal or add some comments to explain things for others.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I rawdog every single command, I use no aliases at all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I couldn't even work if I had aliases in my muscle memory. Imagine ssh'ing to a server and every second command you issue doesn't exist because it's some weird alias you set up for yourself.

I'll stick with the "pure" command and use tab completion.

That's also part of the reason why I don't use some of the fancy new tools like ripgrep and exa.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You couldn't even work if you made a few longer commonly used commands convenient aliases? Well alright.

I can't imagine how you feel about bash scripts lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not the person you responded to, but sure. Breaking muscle memory is extremely grating.

Also, it's pretty easy to type long commands with little typing. If you use ctrl+r to search backward in your history, you can easily recall long commands - and also, you can use ctrl+x,ctrl+e to edit the current command line in $EDITOR so you can edit long commands. These two tricks make it very easy to type long commands quickly with very little typing.