I wouldn't recommend using aliases for existing functions like `kill` - this breaks expected functionality: `which kill` prints the path a user who has forgotten about the alias wants to call but it's not what's actually being called so, unless the user remembers to check `alias`, there's going to be some confusion when `kill -9 $PID` has no effect.
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I wouldn't recommend using aliases for existing functions like `kill` - this breaks expected functionality: `which kill` prints the path a user who has forgotten about the alias wants to call but it's not what's actually being called so, unless the user remembers to check `alias`, there's going to be some confusion when `kill -9 $PID` has no effect.