What is your preferred bash alias server side? client side?

A Bash alias is essentially nothing more than a keyboard shortcut, an abbreviation, a means of avoiding typing a long command sequence.

Source: tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/aliases.html‎

Aliases are common in Linux/Unix shells but also in Windows Command Prompt and in PowerShell.

Bash aliases are useful to call a command with some specific options, to run a script / application or to read a personal help file in the shell.

The Bash aliases are in .bashrc (a 'dot' file where define your aliases, functions and other interactive features) but is better create and use a .bash_aliases file.

To read the bash' s aliases simple type alias that displays a list of all current aliases.

My preferred are:

alias su='su -p'

This invoke the su command (change user ID or become superuser) with the -p option to preserve the current environment.

alias rm='rm -iv'

This start rm (remove files or directories) in interactive and verbose mode to avoid to delete files by mistake.

Note that the -f (force) option ignore the interactive option.

alias re-source='source ~/.bashrc'

This reload all the bash configuration files.Useful when you modify them, like adding an alias, for the changes to take effect.

Ignore the alias with \\\\ or ' ' like: \\\\rm or 'rm'.

This, in Unix shells, override the rm alias.

Regards, Renzo