[coldtea]

One could see it as the opposite:

Forcing yourself to memorize flags, means you're just equally uncomfortable on any machine: that is, you haven't optimized any particular machine, especially the 1-2-3 machines you use 90% of the time with your aliases.

Not to mention in 2023 on doesn't have to memorize anything to have aliases on "any machine". Have your aliases on a file (or GitHub) and just download it and source it to whether you are.

[heavenlyblue]

Optimising the addition of a few flags to a command is alin to optimising the length of variable names. I find that typing out flags gives me plenty of time to think about what I am doing anyway.

[coldtea]

Yes, nothing says productivity like spending half and hour to find the right flags every time you need to use something outside the most common unix userland...

or getting them subtly wrong in some production shell script...

[heavenlyblue]

So what you're saying that you're putting your own home-grown script wrappers from local machine to production deployment scripts?