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.

He posted some Tweets about how he believes ChatGPT (or whichever AI service he uses, I can’t recall) is sentient, and of course, female.

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.