Comment by alsetmusic

17 days ago

From my own aliases:

   alias curl='/opt/homebrew/opt/curl/bin/curl '
   alias rsync-copy='/opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -avz --progress -h '
   alias rsync-move='/opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -avz --progress -h --remove-source-files '
   alias rsync-synchronize='/opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -avzu --delete --progress -h '
   alias rsync-update='/opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -avzu --progress -h '
   alias vi='/opt/homebrew/bin/vim -S ~/.vimrc'
   alias vim='/opt/homebrew/bin/vim -S ~/.vimrc'
   alias wget='/opt/homebrew/bin/wget -c '

There are others with flags added. These are the ones that override the builtin MacOS versions that aren't up-to-date.

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alsetmusic

lexicality 16 days ago

Slightly confused as to why - surely homebrew adds itself to the PATH ahead of the system utilities?

Also - surely vim auto-reads your vimrc?

alsetmusic 16 days ago

I learned to deliberately declare paths pretty early on in my adventures at the CLI. I don't leave room for accidental alternative execution. It might be overkill, but it gives me a sense of security and that's why it's there. Don't worry, I probably made a terrible mistake somewhere else that completely negates my attempts at a correct shell environment.