▲ | sudahtigabulan 10 hours ago | |
Aliases as a feature are meant to save you typing in the first place. The more you use aliases, the more you save in typing, over time. If you can't remember a particular alias, that means you have a use for it very rarely (spaced repetition and all that), and the benefit of having it around is very low anyway. I generally try to prune my bashrc from aliases that turned out not as useful as I thought. I have about 50 atm, and don't feel the need for a helper tool. Maybe if one's aliases skew towards a particular pattern this tool could be useful, I don't know. | ||
▲ | drcongo 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I keep those rarely used ones in there as a useful record of the syntax that I created the alias to get around in the first place. Fish shell's abbreviations are even more useful in this respect as they expand to the full command. |