the-other.md

bashrc

Lets looks at bashrc

alias lls=ls

You can call lls -lash like if you were calling ls -lash. What you cant do is tie this to a project / repo.

alias ccm=clojure -M

You cant do ccm:my-repl.

make file

example:
  ls

This wont work make example -lash because the -lash is a param to npm not ls. Taking in params can be done with variables but are annoyingly specific to each call, and more verbose.

package.json

same as above

  "scripts": {
    "lss": "ls",
  },

npm run lss is fine

npm run lss -lash doesn't work because the -lash is a param to npm not ls.

Clojure specific examples

We have a deps.edn where every alias is defined independently instead of a large specific alias.

{:aliases {:env {:example "x"}}}

then we get calls like

clojure -M:env

And a makefile could be

dev:
  clojure -M:env

For calling make dev

The issues is that you cant then do make dev --watch or make dev:cider