In a message dated: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:38:45 PST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

>I have enjoyed reading the discussion on various aliases, as below.
>Some years ago working at Raytheon, there was an old guy,
>a Unix Weenie, whiskers, suspenders, plaid shirt and all., who had
>an "alias file" of many, many entries (which I have lost).

I probably knew him :)

>Anyone else want to offer some neat, tricky, crafty
>additions for an (Linux) alias file ?

Yeah, don't have one.  If you learn the commands and learn them well 
you don't need aliases.  I've found many people who come to depend so 
heavily on aliases that when they're forced to a new system, they've
forgotten which commands were put together in the first place to form
the alias.  Then they're helpless until they figure out how to re-create
what they used to have.

As such, I've learned to not use them at all, and find that I end up 
knowing commands much better than if I had become dependant upon 
aliases.


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