Timeline for When and why unalias?
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| Mar 1, 2017 at 14:43 | comment | added | calocedrus | Also, nice and clearly illustrated metaphor about "washing hands" vs "taking a shower" for unalias vs delete (or comment) + close and repoen terminal; but some situations I meant to refer to as an introduction (permanently removing an alias, i.e. for future sessions) call for taking the shower rather than facing the need to repeatedly washing hands each and every time a new session is opened or one logs out and back in (or is there other options to permanently unalias?). | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 14:35 | vote | accept | calocedrus | ||
| Mar 1, 2017 at 14:15 | comment | added | calocedrus |
@vovik: good points; considering (maybe wrongly) unalias a rare enough action or one that could be postponed, I've never dealt, nor thought about dealing with (un)aliases while having processes running in the background (I'd use screen for these) or being logged in to some remote machine.
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| Feb 24, 2017 at 7:30 | history | edited | undercat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2017 at 7:00 | history | answered | undercat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |