Great article. I have been bitten by aliases more than once.
I remember pulling my hair out over a failing mount command for several hours on a collocated server where a sys admin had aliases the mount command. I tried everything to get my USB drive to mount to no avail.
Finally I tried type mount and learned that mount was aliased. :mad:
The alias caused all my args and options to be misinterpreted by the system and I kept getting unexplainable usage errors.
This experience alone caused me to question aliases as a good practice to avoid typing long options.
I personally create mini shell scripts when I find something repetitive and give the shell script a clever unique name to avoid this nonsense.
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Great article. I have been bitten by aliases more than once.
I remember pulling my hair out over a failing
mountcommand for several hours on a collocated server where a sys admin had aliases themountcommand. I tried everything to get my USB drive to mount to no avail.Finally I tried
type mountand learned thatmountwas aliased. :mad:The alias caused all my args and options to be misinterpreted by the system and I kept getting unexplainable usage errors.
This experience alone caused me to question aliases as a good practice to avoid typing long options.
I personally create mini shell scripts when I find something repetitive and give the shell script a clever unique name to avoid this nonsense.