[coffeeaddicted]

That was too much typing anyway. When you mostly work with one language something like this is nice (in my case c/c++): alias ack-cpp='ack-grep --type=cpp --type=cc'

[llimllib]

I have that aliased to 'cack'. Then ruby is 'rack', python is 'pack', go is 'gack', etc.

(I've never needed to use the rackup "rack" command directly, fortunately, if you do you ought to use a different alias)

[irahul]

> I've never needed to use the rackup "rack" command directly, fortunately, if you do you ought to use a different alias

Or escape alias \rack

[alxndr]

or $(which rack)

[alxndr]

Hm, I've recently begun using zsh primarily and this trick doesn't work there: zsh lets you know what the alias is... bash will happily find `rack` in your `$PATH` and then run it.

(Presumably because in zsh, `which which` says it's a shell built-in, whereas in bash it finds `/usr/bin/which`, so bash doesn't seem to be caring about your aliases.)

[mhei]

If you have the EQUALS option set (by default it is), you can use =rack instead: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#g_t_00...

[alxndr]

Lovely, thanks!