Since we're beating this alias thing to death, I thought I'd mention
a couple amusing ones I've seen:
alias mroe='more'
this is useful for the common mis-typing of "more". Fun if you're
working with someone, they start to say "whoops, you spelled 'more'
wrong", you hit Enter and it works OK :-) I don't exercise that one much,
having aliased "m" to more and "l" to less I usually type the short one.
Does anyone remember the one below and its history? I think this is
from the Slackware distro (circa 1994), or it could even be from my
original Soft-Landing Software (SLS) distro:
alias linus='exec ~/a.out'
I always thought this was odd and amusing that it appeared in root's
.profile file. I assumed it was a joke, but I don't know the
background very well. I guess it meant Linus often compiled a program
in his (or root's) home directory, with no output executable name so
the default "a.out" was used, and he often wanted to exec it. I don't
think one can replace a running kernel this way, but maybe you can.
Anyone who knows the details of this bit of history, please let me know.
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