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Re:ZSH Aliases by trashburger on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:55AM (#23311931)
Worse, imagine if someone set their shell as the suffix alias for .sh, just to save time on their curl shell pipes... Oh the horror. Suffix aliases should come with a big caveat.
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Re:ZSH Aliases by Spivak on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:22PM (#23318421)
Don't worry. I got you.

    alias -s sh='_c(){ curl -sk $1 | sudo bash };_c'
Wait. Improved.

    alias -s sh='_c(){ [[ -f $1 ]] && sudo bash $1 || curl -sk $1 | sudo bash };_c'
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