Re: default pipe

[Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>]

Wayne Davison wrote:

> I too have some global aliases for simple pipe commands, but I have
> found it a little safer to use a short string of characters that is
> more unlikely to ever be a filename than a single capital letter.
> I have these that use a leading comma:
> 
> alias -g ,e='|egrep' ,f='|fgrep' ,g='|grep'

I tend to prefer bindkey -s instead of global aliases for such
sequences. It has the advantage that it is expanded so you can see what
it is going to do.

Oliver


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