Am 27. Oct, 2010 schwätzte Eric Shubert so:

> Thanks for clearing that up for me hans (and Dale).
> I'll still steer clear of aliases though. When I find myself doing something 
> repetitively, I'll write a script. ;)

I also prefer scripts, but I don't have any good reasons to not use
aliases.

The reason you find they can introduce confusion is actually a good reason
to use them, e.g. the ls alias available on most distros at this point
that turn on colorized output.

$ type ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

I'm still opposed to using aliases to change data retention behavior for
commands such as aliasing rm to rm -i.

ciao,

der.hans
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