• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    17 hours ago

    Aliasing cat or any other ubiquitous shell utility to a replacement is a mistake. Garuda did this, and it was driving me crazy why cat was giving me errors. Turns out that they had aliased bat to cat, and since bat is a different program, it didn’t work in exactly the same way, and an update had introduced some unexpected behavior.

    Drop-in replacements are dumb. Just learn to use a different command.

    • janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      13 hours ago

      I think it’s ok to add this in a personal .zshrc, not on a distro level:

      If it breaks something - I’d probably know why and can easily fix it by removing alias/calling cat directly.

      Also, scripts almost always use bash or sh in shebang, not zsh. So it only triggers if I type cat in terminal.