Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Save Time on the Command Line With Aliases" video.

  1. Have you looked at shell functions? They are even more powerful than aliases, because they can take arguments. They’re like mini-shell-scripts, except they don’t live in separate files or run in separate shell instances.
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  2. Shell functions are more powerful than aliases.
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  3.  @oalfodr  I would add the “-z” option to the git command. Just in case.
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  4.  @oalfodr  I have this thing about ensuring that my scripts can deal with arbitrary file names. Remember that spaces and newlines can occur in filenames.
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  5. 2:04 Your .bashrc has an unnecessary “#!/bin/bash” at the top. That could be useful in other shell scripts, but not in this one.
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  6. The only sudo command I use is “sudo /bin/bash”. Or, for extra coolness (saving an extra CTRL-D to exit), how about “exec sudo /bin/bash”.
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  7. 0:44 I don’t allow food and drink near my computers. So that avoids that problem.
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