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Re:Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating... by opan on Friday April 01, 2022 @11:52AM (#30879495)
This looks very cool. I use shell aliases heavily on all my devices and try to avoid typing out the same one-liners more than once or twice when possible.
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Re:Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating... by silentprog on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:03PM (#30879643)
Thank you! Currently the software is very much alpha, so some bugs are expected. I also use shell aliases a lot, though redo is currently not creating aliases but shell functions. In the future I want to add support for creating actual aliases as well instead of shell functions. A simple solution would be to not create a function but an actual alias and chain the commands with &&, this would work but then you lose the power to edit the function and for example have arguments to some commands and not to others.
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Re:Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating... by gjvc on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:26PM (#30880798)
stick with functions
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Re:Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating... by silentprog on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:27PM (#30881645)
Care to elaborate?
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Re:Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating... by gjvc on Sunday April 10, 2022 @12:20PM (#30978576)
no
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