In a message dated: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:42:50 PST
"Karl J. Runge" said:
>I have a lot of aliases, they are a good thing IMHO. I work at the shell
>cmd line a lot.
I pretty much live in the command line, so I'm not sure what that has
to do with anything. Of course, your personal preferences need not
be compatible with mine :)
>% alias | wc -l
> 124
>
>many of them are aliases like "cdfoo" that cd to the down to the
>directory of my "foo" project, etc.
This would indicate to me that either, your path names are just too
long, or, you'd be better off using symbolic links instead.
>FWIW, here are my ls related aliases, not all of them were mentioned earlier
>by others:
>
>ls ls -F # -F puts the visual clue trailing character
This would completely mess up things like:
$ for i in `ls /some/long/path`
> do
> cp $i ${i}.bak
> cp /some/long/path/$i .
> done
since now there would be special characters at the end of each
filename which I wouldn't necessarilly want. Note also, this isn't a
shell script in the normal sense of the term, but rather a command-line program
which isn't stored in the file. I do things like this *all* the
time, and the aliases *are* expanded here.
>ll ls -lF | more # long listing
>lsa ls -aF # list the "." files too
>lss ls -lSF | more # list by size
>lst ls -ltF | more # list by modification time
>lsr ls -lRF | more # recurse directories
I look at this as 5 new commands I now need to remember rather than 1
command and a couple different options.
Just my $.02 :)
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