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[โ€“] 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

[โ€“] janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days 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.