I had a bit of a "Tyrel you know nothing" moment today with some commandline tooling.

I have been an avid user of ZSH for a decade now, but recently I tried to swap to fish shell. Along the years, I've maintained a lot of different iterations of dotfiles, and shell aliases/functions. I was talking to a friend [citation needed] about updating from exa to eza and then noticed I didn't have my aliases loaded, so I was still using ls directly, as I have alias ls="exa -lhFgxUm --git --time-style long-iso --group-directories-first" in my .shell_aliases file.

I did …

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