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i hope it happens 🀩 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

That example is indeed what I meant. What's awful about it?

edit: I use a customized ls alias. Most of the time it's fine, and when I occasionally need the default output, I can type /bin/ls, no new alias to memorize. The history command suggests I do this pretty infrequently, though ymmv.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    ls doesn't have the version sort option so since you're aliasing a piped command to sort you'd be passing any additional commands to sort

    So

    ls -r

    Would actually be

    /bin/ls | /bin/sort -V -r

    You could overcome this with xargs but it's just definitely a bad idea in general to alias a standard command piped into another command. Will cause headaches.

    Where as something like

    ls="/bin/ls -r"

    Just defaults ls to a reverse sort and you can still safely add additional args.

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