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At some point hitherto, Paul Lussier hath spake thusly: 

[Alias files] 
> 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.
 
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I agree 100% with this philosophy.  I do
maintain a very small number of aliases for long commands that I would
otherwise type a lot, but I prefer generally to type things out, so
that I'm clear on just exactly what it is that I'm doing (inasmuch as
I ever am)....
 
=8^) 


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