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      <p>Shell aliases are a useful way to shorten long or complicated commands or to easily add additional arguments when running commands.</p>

      <p>Common aliases are I see are <code>gs</code> for <code>git status</code>, <code>a</code> for <code>artisan</code> and <code>dr</code> for <code>drush</code>.</p>

      <p>I've been experimenting with Zellij for the last day or so, and have written aliases like <code>zl</code> for <code>zellij list-sessions</code>, but have also added extra arguments such as <code>zellij list-sessions | sort | grep -v EXITED</code> to sort the sessions and filter any exited sessions.</p>

      <p>Running aliases makes it easier and quicker for me to run these commands, and less likely for me to make errors and type incorrectly.</p>

      <p>The issue with aliases is that you can forget that the underlying commands are if you only type and see <code>gs</code> or <code>zl</code>.</p>

      <p>It's also not easy when giving demos or pair or mob programming for others to see and understand the commands that are being run.</p>

      <p>Instead of aliases, I mostly use abbreviations with zsh-abbr that expand automatically after pressing the space key.</p>

      <p>That way, I and others get to see and understand the commands being run.</p>

      <p>I still have some aliases that don't expand but now I use abbreviations as my default approach.</p>

              
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      <p>Shell aliases are a useful way to shorten long or complicated commands or to easily add additional arguments when running commands.</p>

      <p>Common aliases are I see are <code>gs</code> for <code>git status</code>, <code>a</code> for <code>artisan</code> and <code>dr</code> for <code>drush</code>.</p>

      <p>I've been experimenting with Zellij for the last day or so, and have written aliases like <code>zl</code> for <code>zellij list-sessions</code>, but have also added extra arguments such as <code>zellij list-sessions | sort | grep -v EXITED</code> to sort the sessions and filter any exited sessions.</p>

      <p>Running aliases makes it easier and quicker for me to run these commands, and less likely for me to make errors and type incorrectly.</p>

      <p>The issue with aliases is that you can forget that the underlying commands are if you only type and see <code>gs</code> or <code>zl</code>.</p>

      <p>It's also not easy when giving demos or pair or mob programming for others to see and understand the commands that are being run.</p>

      <p>Instead of aliases, I mostly use abbreviations with zsh-abbr that expand automatically after pressing the space key.</p>

      <p>That way, I and others get to see and understand the commands being run.</p>

      <p>I still have some aliases that don't expand but now I use abbreviations as my default approach.</p>

              
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