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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I hadn't heard of that one, actually! I've heard of similar calls mapped to keyboard shortcuts (and I mention one in the article). This one's great to know about, thanks!
Thanks for catching that. I've corrected it in the article.
Since this article is specifically about bash aliases, I'm keeping this as an alias (and it really is what I use in my own .bashrc, and I have no problem with it aside from when it's being entered into a CMS!) rather than a function.
I do think there's a lot more to be said about Bash functions, so maybe there's an article in the future on the topic.