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		hnriot on March 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zsh-lovers – tips, tricks and examples for the Z s... It's funny to see alias PIPE='\|' That's not much of an alias. Usually I use them to shorten the typing, not make it longer. Here's my suggestion: alias "list all files, but don't show much info"= ls Premature 4/1

tomprince on March 30, 2013 [–]

I could imagine that that is for keyboard layouts where | is prohibitively difficult to type.

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