My question is whether it is good practice to include a unique wrapper phrase for custom commands and aliases.
For example, lets say I use the following command frequently:
apt update && apt upgrade -y && flatpak update
I want to save time by shortening this command. I want to alias it to the following command:
update
And lets say I also make up a command that calls a bash script to scrub all of of my zfs and btrfs pools:
scrub
Lets say I add 100 other aliases. Maybe I am overthinking it, but I feel there should be some easy way to distinguish these from native Unix commands. I feel there should be some abstraction layer.
My question is whether converting these commands into arguments behind a wrapper command is worth it.
For example, lets say my initials are “RK”. The above commands would become:
rk update
rk scrub
Then I could even create the following to list all of my subcommands and their uses:
rk --help
I would have no custom commands that exist outside of rk
, so I add to total of one executable to my system.
I feel like this is the “cleaner” approach, but what do you think? Is this an antipattern? Is is just extra work?
You may like this pattern of starting all custom commands with a comma - benefits against a wrapper command would be shorter command names and built-in tab completion.