[GRLUG] bad commands

[Steve Romanow]

On 3/11/2010 2:12 PM, mikemol at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Adam Tauno Williams 
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 13:35 -0500, topher at t1kdevelopment.com wrote:
>>> I deleted JT's post before my reply came to mind, so pretend this is a
>>> reply to his.
>>> Are there any commands you type incorrectly so often that you make an
>>> alias for it?
>>
>> Nope;  almost 18 years as a sys-admin and I've never seen the point of
>> shell aliases.
>
> I use aliases, but not explicitly as part of system administration.
>
> For example, I'll occasionally do something like this:
>
> alias mplayer="mplayer -vo vdpau -ao pulse -fs -fixed-vo"
>
> Sure, I could put most of that in a config file, but this way feels a 
> little more normal.
>
>
> One common use of aliases in system administration is usually done for 
> me:
> alias ls="ls --color=auto"
>
> 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.

And when configuring icinga (or nagios) you check this religiously.
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