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by g15jv2dp 733 days ago
Doesn't work with powershell (which, to be fair, was quite new at the time this blog post was released).

But honestly, while 2 or 3-letters aliases are tricky, I've very rarely had issues with 4-letter aliases. There are 456k possibilities. On my small opensuse install, my PATH contains only 105 4-letter executables.
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genewitch 732 days ago
what doesn't work about it? i made ",foo.bar"

and i went into PS and typed ,<tab> and it said:

> PS V:\> & '.\,foo.bar'

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g15jv2dp 732 days ago
The goal is to have short aliases. That explicit call syntax isn't exactly convenient. That's what doesn't work.
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genewitch 731 days ago
i typed a literal comma, and then the tab button, and it put in the baker's dozen other characters. I only did this to see if "this doesn't work in powershell" was true, turns out it is not true.

if i have ,foo.exe and ,cuda_install.exe in a directory (or on my path), it's two characters and then a tab, same as linux, to run either of them: ,c || ,f

anyhow, it was for my own edification.

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