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submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

            
              zsh-autosuggestions
history | fzf
alias cat="bat --plain --theme=gruvbox-dark"

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Aliasing cat or any other ubiquitous shell utility to a replacement is a mistake. Garuda did this, and it was driving me crazy why cat was giving me errors. Turns out that they had aliased bat to cat, and since bat is a different program, it didn't work in exactly the same way, and an update had introduced some unexpected behavior.

Drop-in replacements are dumb. Just learn to use a different command.

[–] janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I think it's ok to add this in a personal .zshrc, not on a distro level:

If it breaks something - I'd probably know why and can easily fix it by removing alias/calling cat directly.

Also, scripts almost always use bash or sh in shebang, not zsh. So it only triggers if I type cat in terminal.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's better to learn the new command, then it still works when you use a different machine that doesn't have your alias

[–] janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

If you are me, there is no brain space for remembering new commands. I can already barely hold on to few dozens that I use often. And occasionally when I need "that one that does that niche thing... how was it?" program - I just sit there sifting through logs for couple minutes.

Today it was od (tbh it's od almost half the time; not really the best name to memorize (I really need to make a note or something, so I stop forgetting it, lol))

Also, for this reason I went to great lengths to keep my ~/.zsh_history protected from being randomly deleted/overwritten by mistake, as it happened a couple of times. Currently it's sitting at around 30_000 lines, oldest command is 2 years old.

[–] crater2150@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

Also, even zsh scripts don't read your .zshrc by default.