Post #2644341
2026-05-17 16:49 UTC
You should be using a variable not an alias.
Variables in bash have a few sharp edges; one of which is that spaces act as a delimiter and turn the variable into a list.
The other being that sometimes escaping and unescaping the contents of a variable can be stupidly tricky. This is why a lot of people who use bash do not like spaces in directory or file names.
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@MolochHorridus@piefed.social 2026-05-17 17:08
Thanks for the tip, but escaping and unescaping sounds tedious, since I use spaces in both directory and file names. What I like about aliases here is that I have one central location to set them up and change them. If I ever were to forget what aliases I have it’s just about opening the file and looking.