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ls | sort -Vnow that I've cursed you.But I'm running out of mental storage space for bash commands. I wish I could clear some space.
Make a bash alias once, get the correct behavior forever.
What's worse is making a bunch of bash aliases that are easier to remember and then you hit an environment you can't use your bashrc in for whatever reason. Then you have no idea how to actually do anything.
I try to only use aliases for things that I repeat often but are only going to be used in my specific environment.
Unless you mean
Which would be really awful to do for obvious reasons.
That example is indeed what I meant. What's awful about it?
edit: I use a customized
lsalias. Most of the time it's fine, and when I occasionally need the default output, I can type/bin/ls, no new alias to memorize. Thehistorycommand suggests I do this pretty infrequently, though ymmv.lsdoesn't have the version sort option so since you're aliasing a piped command to sort you'd be passing any additional commands tosortSo
ls -rWould actually be
/bin/ls | /bin/sort -V -rYou could overcome this with xargs but it's just definitely a bad idea in general to alias a standard command piped into another command. Will cause headaches.
Where as something like
Just defaults
lsto a reverse sort and you can still safely add additional args.