I came across the best shell alias ever:
alias up="cd .."
This is one of those things that make me go “Why didn’t I thought of it earlier? And myself?”.
In order to add some value to this post, here are my two mostly used aliases:
alias pd="perldoc" alias pdf="perldoc -f"
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1 Lev Shuvalov » my favorite shell alias // Jan 31, 2006 at 11:56 am
[...] Reading Best shell alias ever I think for a moment which is mine? and get answer from beyond. alias bk=’cd ../’ alias la=’ls -l –human-readable –almost-all –time-style=long-iso –color=always’ alias lo=’ls -o –human-readable –almost-all –time-style=long-iso –color=always’ alias gg=’elinks http://www.google.com/‘ But I like alias up=’cd ..’ “up” it seems more logical to me than “back”. [...]
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Lev Shuvalov
// Jan 31, 2006 at 12:07 pm
I’ll change my
alias bk=’cd ../’
I also like
alias la=’ls -l –human-readable –almost-all –time-style=long-iso –color=always’
alias lo=’ls -o –human-readable –almost-all –time-style=long-iso –color=always’
alias gg=’elinks http://www.google.com/‘
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