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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  • @duncesplayedEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    Yeah, I remember when Linux was first becoming cool, in the mid-to-late 90s. There was a lot of folk wisdom going around, and one of them was “make an alias rm='rm -i' so you don’t accidentally delete anything!”

    And then there was the (correct, IMHO) counter-wisdom of “no, that actually makes it more likely to accidentally delete something, because one day you’re going to be on a machine where that alias doesn’t exist, but you’ve become dependent on it existing”.

    I don’t mind creating aliases to add colour or change formatting a little bit or something, but don’t make an alias to keep yourself safe, because it’ll probably backfire on you.