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Re: automatically turn previous command into an alias

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From: zzapper <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: automatically turn previous command into an alias
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:26:37 +0100
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/28012>
In-reply-to: <d5401f18-927b-99a4-5cef-470edaf4385a@gmx.com>
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On 30/08/2022 14:04, Eric Cook wrote:

On 8/30/22 04:02, zzapper wrote:

# automatically turn previous command into an alias
alias mkal='_f(){_al=$(history -n -1 -1 | sed "s#\\\\n##" ); alias$1="$_al" ; alias -L "$1"};_f'
any improvements, easier way etc


aliases_suck() {
  aliases[${1:?no name given}]=$history[$((HISTCMD-1))]
  alias -L $1
}

I really like your elegant solution. My lingering preference for aliasesis that they are so easy to tab expand and tweek



zzapper

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- Re: automatically turn previous command into an alias
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