I put L in 'single quotes' or I \escape it
alias -g L=' | less '
which allows me to simply append "L" to a line to pipe the output to less. ls L
The pattern of short all-caps global aliases for ' | command 's make building/editing pipelines really easy/fast. alias -g C=' | wc -l '
alias -g A=' | ack-grep '
alias -g S=' | sort '
alias -g JQL=' | jq -C | less'
ls **/*png L
ls **/*png A -v regex C
curl $site JQL
putting