Re: default pipe

[zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:23:30 -0700,  wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:29:41PM +0100, zzapper wrote:
>> alias -g L=' | less'
>
>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'
>alias -g ,h='|head'  ,t='|tail'  ,w='|wc'
>alias -g ,l='|less'  ,x='|xargs'
>
>I also have a second version of each of those aliases that combines
>stderr and stdout into the pipe, such as this one for less:
>
>alias -g ,,l='|&less'
>
>Yes, it does mean you need to type a space before the global alias, but
>I always typed a space before a "|" anyway, so that doesn't bother me.
>
Wayne,
never thought to use a sequence ,x etc good idea. I have a convention to use uppercase for Global
Aliases don't know if that's my idea or is general.

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