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    [–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Very useful tip: i have ls aliased to eza which is ls with eyecandy, I have la aliased to eza -a and I have cd aliased to cd && eza which makes navigating folders very easy. I also aliased .. to cd .. for convenience. I know a lot of people are purists about the terminal but i think this is a good ballance between convenience and simplicity. Doesnt do a lot of the cursed stuff ricers like to do.

    [–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    cd is a zoxide alias for me. If I need to navigate by folder content, I have yazi on y

    [–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

    Yazi is nice but when im navigating shorter directory structures i prefer cd. Question of personal preference as all of this is.

    [–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 days ago

    ooooh that's nice! i love this threads, my shell gets soo much nicer! thank you all, you are great!

    [–] DaforLynx@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Love convenient aliases. Would aliasing .. cause "../previous/file" to become " cd ../previous/file" and ruin some commands? I guess not. I also use eza :D

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

    Only if it's a global alias, I think (those are useful for stuff like alias -g DN=/dev/null)

    [–] Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    How do you have cd && eza setup? With an alias the arguments only get appended to the final command so how is it cding to the correct folder?

    [–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I think i defined cd as a function for interactive shells or something. I dont remember and i dont have my computer so yeah. It should look something like this: cd() {builtin cd "$@" && eza}