brandon

By default bash will only expand an alias if it’s the first argument of the command (that is, the command itself).

It’s probably not intended to use aliases this way, and there are probably better options for you.

However, there is a little trick you can do. If the alias command ends in a space, then bash will also check the next argument:

alias cd='cd '

Notice the trailing space after ‘cd’ in the alias definition.

alias docs='/media/docs'

then, cd docs should work the way you expect.

Another method would be to:

alias docs='echo /media/docs'

Then you can do

cd `docs`  

The backticks will cause the shell to replace that portion with the output of the docs shell command, which will be expanded via the alias.

All that said, it’s probably easiest just to use a link, like another commenter suggested.

Yeah, the ‘for reasons I don’t quite understand’ bit was intended slightly sarcastically.

One issue with this is that uutils is licensed under the MIT license, instead of coreutils’ GPL license. In fact, for reasons I don’t quite understand many of these rust rewrites are licensed with the MIT license. This will contribute to long term erosion of the rights granted by the GPL to software projects and users.

There will be additional proceedings to determine the amount of punitive damages to apply as well. So this probably isn’t the entire judgement.

Whether it survived appeal to establish a precedent for other complaints is another story.

But, topically, will not block YouTube ads

FYI, Tidal is approximately the same price as Spotify and there are several tools floating around on GitHub which will allow you to download high quality flac files from that service.

Well no, the Canonical distribution is Ubuntu.

/s

For wayland applications you can try waypipe too, which I’ve found works for most things.

I wasn’t referring to crime rates at all, just the dangers of American traffic infrastructure. And in that context I’m not interested in comparing the rates of traffic injury/death over the past X years but with other developed countries.

The primary issue isn’t that American children are less capable but that American neighborhoods are unsafe. In many suburban developments in the United States it isn’t safe to walk to anywhere of interest (excepting the neighboring houses). Residential areas are often separated from commercial and recreational areas by high speed automobile traffic lanes with little-to-no pedestrian infrastructure.

That’s not capitalism, that’s a market.

If I had to venture a guess I’d say it was probably the tower at nearby Minot AFB. Perhaps the commercial flight’s approach took them over the bases’ airspace or something.