I’ve written about this before, but aliases just fucking suck! I just
wasted five minutes figuring out why my grep from within Vim didn’t
work (using !!bash). I was using UNIX philosophy at it’s finest and
typed the following directly into my file under the references block of
my zettel.
zet titles | grep emojiblock | zet mark link
Normally, I would have expected this:
* [20210812165625](/20210812165625/) EmojiBlocks, CommonMark Blockquotes with Meaning
But instead I got nothing.
Why?
Because aliases fucking SUCK!
I added grep -i to get it to work. Then I immediately deleted all my
fucking aliases and replaced with one-line exec commands. Don’t be me,
just say no to the alias command entirely.