I think aliases are awesome. This is way I wrote a small about aliases on my blog.

gemini://sava.rocks/blog/using-aliases-for-complex-and-daily-terminal-commands/

What is your most used alias? Mine is the alias I use to update all docker containers for sava.rocks on all 4 protocols

5 months ago · 👍 xoagray, jo, jsreed5

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I have a bunch of well-used aliases set up for ssh-ing into various machines and starting mutt with different config files for different accounts. Very handy indeed. · 5 months ago

@jsreed5 nice. I'll be using your hgrep also 😀 · 5 months ago

I almost forgot about this! Another alias I use a lot is 'hgrep', which is short for 'history | grep'. · 5 months ago

alexa, order 66.. then rm -rf / on all computers start ;) · 5 months ago

I have one called 'mkbak' that simply makes a copy of a file with the current date and a .bak extension. · 5 months ago

i aliased sudo to please. now if it doesn't work first try it's because i forgot the magic word · 5 months ago

mine is

zse=zypper search

for performing package searches in #openSUSE · 5 months ago