R.L. Dane 
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I'm not saying you should all go out and set up aliases to enable your various typos and slip-ups, but I honestly don't know why I didn't do this 25 years ago.
alias cd..='cd ..'
🇨🇦 CleoQc 🍁🦜🧶🚐🌈@rl_dane
Ah! I did! I also had cd... = cd ../..
Ah! I did! I also had cd... = cd ../..
TristanNo lolcat on top? ;)
CJ 
👨💻@rl_dane one of my favorite things about zsh (which I recently came back to...I used it on my old Macbook and never switched when I went to Linux until last week): it's got aliases without cd by default (ex.
..='cd ..')! Might also just be an oh-my-zsh thing but I love it!I mean, that can be done in bash with a single alias, but if you're happy with zsh, I'm happy. ;)
Simon Dassow@rl_dane I raise you a few "alias ..='cd ..'", "alias ...='cd ../..'" etc as deep as you like ;-)
I see your "it's alias ......= all the way down, young man" and raise you a "I have my own 'smart cd' command that searches an index of directories under my home directory and cd's to it if there's only one, or calls fzf for you to search through the results, and is much faster than fzf's cd **something** magic (or whatever that syntax was ;)"
Ethan Black@rl_dane `alias celar='rm -rf .'`
That's living dangerously! ;)
jhxNo way, sudo apt install -y sl instead! ;)
Patrick Georgi@rl_dane I think SUSE Linux had that one in the late 90s, definitely a nice one :-)
(and in that case, it was also a transition aid for people coming from the DOS/Windows world where that always works)
(and in that case, it was also a transition aid for people coming from the DOS/Windows world where that always works)
Oh, that's right, I remember wondering, "Why isn't there an md?!?"
I also used to have aliases that made fun of my typos, like
alias flaptak='echo "flaptak?!? lol!!!"; sleep 1; flatpak'
;)
Condor Puma Serpiente@rl_dane My personal most used is
basically, if you run a command and forget to sudo, you can say please to get the computer to do it.
alias please=sudo !!basically, if you run a command and forget to sudo, you can say please to get the computer to do it.
I've seen that, but never used it myself.
My ex-infosec background makes it such that I'm always quite aware of when I do and don't want/need to use root privileges. ;)
Tito Swineflu@rl_dane Ha, I did that 30 years ago, at least.
Dino@rl_dane I don't make aliases of this kind (typo crutch) because I feel they reinforce poor behavior when I'd rather push myself to learn to type the right things. Aliases for long and complicated shit are great though! I have many many of those.
Yeah, have the same rule, for which this is a rare exception. ;)
I do have ll, though. Never apologizing for that one. ;)
primeapple@rl_dane If you use fish, check out abbreviations. They are just soooo cool!
AdamThat can also be done as a bash alias, but for some reason, I've never felt the need to.
Maybe if cd had been changedir all along, or something. XD
I think I commented elsewhere on this thread being surprised that unix's mkdir wasn't md like in DOS.
I never aliased that, but I do have a very useful alias called mcd (actually, a function):
function mcd {
#mkdir & cd
[[ $1 ]] && mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1"
}
Christmas Tree@rl_dane I swear half my aliases are just typo corrections. Just a few:
sl=ls
pdw=pwd
ehco=echo
It's even to the point where I had to make a custom function to correct, for example, `gi tcommit` to `git commit` (I make that mistake alllllll the time).
You should do what I did to correct my mistakes: I made aliases/functions that would print out a mocking message, like "Flaptak?!? lol!!," wait a second or half second, and then run the right command (flatpak)
That actually helped correct my typing. ;)
Mykie Frankenstein 🎃🦇🕸️@rl_dane You’re a genius. Doing this right now
✌️ ;)
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