From 38727a311d4dcc0b953ce7ebe5ab0e30be7309cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: PowerUser64 <blakelysnorth@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 02:03:36 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] zsh: in-progress removing bad aliases

---
 .zshrc | 33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.zshrc b/.zshrc
index cbd8d12..a3c6687 100644
--- a/.zshrc
+++ b/.zshrc
@@ -166,22 +166,25 @@
    # <<<
    # optionally source an external alias file
    [ -f "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/shell/aliasrc" ] && source "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/shell/aliasrc"
-
-   # # TODO: remove all aliases that refrence programs which do not exist >>>
-   # alias fdsa=not_an_alias
-   # validate_alias() {
-   #    echo "validating alias $1"
-   #    if alias "$1";then
-   #       validate_alias ${1}
-   #    else
-   # }
-   # for ALIAS in $(alias | cut -d = -f 1);do
-   #    ! validate_alias "$ALIAS" &&
-   #       unalias "$ALIAS" &&
-   #       echo "alias $ALIAS was removed"
-   # done # <<<
-
 }
+
+# # TODO: remove all aliases that refrence programs which do not exist >>>
+# alias fdsa=not_an_alias # test alias
+# alias what='which ' # this will return 0 if something we give it cannot be executed
+# validate_alias() {
+#    what "$1"
+# }
+# # what fdsa
+# # may need to use xargs
+# for ALIAS in $(alias | cut -d = -f 1);do # assumes you don't have = signs in your alias's names
+#    echo "validating alias $ALIAS"
+#    what "$ALIAS"  &&
+#       unalias "$ALIAS" &&
+#       echo "alias $ALIAS was removed"
+#    done
+#    alias q=exit
+#    # <<<
+
 # <<<
 ### Functions >>>
 {