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On 3/11/2010 2:12 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a> wrote:
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cite="mid:g6nxryeaplx7odmef0UYAxe124vaj_firegpg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org"><awilliam@whitemice.org></a> wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 13:35 -0500,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:topher@t1kdevelopment.com">topher@t1kdevelopment.com</a> wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I deleted JT's post before my reply came to
mind, so pretend this is a
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reply to his.
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Are there any commands you type incorrectly so often that you make an
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alias for it?
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Nope; almost 18 years as a sys-admin and I've never seen the point of
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shell aliases.
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I use aliases, but not explicitly as part of system administration.
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For example, I'll occasionally do something like this:
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alias mplayer="mplayer -vo vdpau -ao pulse -fs -fixed-vo"
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Sure, I could put most of that in a config file, but this way feels a
little more normal.
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One common use of aliases in system administration is usually done for
me:
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alias ls="ls --color=auto"
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Color-coded ls statements.
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I use an alias for verifying my icinga configuration. I made ichk
point to /etc/init.d/icinga -v /usr/local/icinga/etc/object.... you get
the point. <br>
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And when configuring icinga (or nagios) you check this religiously.<br>
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