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Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:26:39 -0700 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=WcXJ12tX c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=630e100f a=bheWAUFm1xGnSTQFbH9Kqg==:117 a=UNgyr3XT6yv5NrNUVILU/Q==:17 a=1HjCxttUbyEA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=biHskzXt2R4A:10 a=a2e3ZCMvcDFSbeJz6dsA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-SECURESERVER-ACCT: david@rayninfo.co.uk X-SID: T1GIoZT3ugJnv Received: from [95.145.222.232] (helo=[192.168.1.231]) by smtp03.mailcore.me with esmtpa (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1oT1GI-00018N-CT for zsh-users@zsh.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:26:38 +0100 Message-ID: <7c60f5da-8ec7-0ae1-040a-9a8c0c901a83@rayninfo.co.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:26:37 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 Subject: Re: automatically turn previous command into an alias Content-Language: en-US To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: From: zzapper In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailcore-Auth: 8308408 X-Mailcore-Domain: 840527 X-123-reg-Authenticated: david@rayninfo.co.uk X-Originating-IP: 95.145.222.232 X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfNh4+Fx/0QJ2PPV21a0pt7KKUEuP93OH/CxNJiUhPKQ4ILxP/kX5fZHD5DqRz1t8xeBWdvZ72cOw6O7Aajdlf8kRsOKUfCbXh51KUcG1k+AoghEFT4Vy rjHQIqAKkxtA2JG1UWPPHI80bqsgH1iMWeum+xsmq8VorexyndL7kvP0d6ZayaNHfwfdtAGS8uMGCw== X-Seq: 28012 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On 30/08/2022 14:04, Eric Cook wrote: > On 8/30/22 04:02, zzapper wrote: >> >> # automatically turn previous command into an alias >> >>>  alias mkal='_f(){_al=$(history -n -1 -1 | sed "s#\\\\n##" ); alias >>> $1="$_al" ; alias -L "$1"};_f' >> >> >> >> any improvements, easier way etc >> > > aliases_suck() { >   aliases[${1:?no name given}]=$history[$((HISTCMD-1))] >   alias -L $1 > } > I really like your elegant solution. My lingering preference for aliases is that they are so easy to tab expand and tweek zzapper