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How to send output to next input line?

This my snippet alias hst="history 1 -1 | cut -c 8- | uniq | fzf ". when I run hst The output is $ ~ hst (the output from hst) $ This is what I want $ ~ hst $ (the output from hst) Example ...
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How to get 'man gfind' when I enter 'man find'?

On my new-ish mac os/Darwin system, my find tool is an 11-year-old BSD version. I have used MacPorts to install a more current version: GNU's find, which MacPorts has named gfind, and placed in /opt/...
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zsh alias not being unaliased in zshrc

[leading dots elided because I don't want to type them] An alias--gl--is set to git pull by a plugin in my zshrc. I want to set it to a git log command. I'm on macOS and, as expected, /etc/zshrc is ...
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How to use aliases with auto completion in oh-my-zsh?

I'm using zsh on MacOS El Capitan. I'm wondering how auto completion has to be parameterized to resolve aliases as well. When I used bash, my .bash_profile contained the following: alias mdb "mongo -...
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What is causing `diff` to run `git diff`?

I'd like to use diff as described here and in the documentation I see when I type man diff. However, when I type diff, what I get is this: ~ ❯❯❯ diff usage: git diff --no-index <path> <path&...
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zsh alias being overridden somehow

I'm on a system running OS X 10.8.5. I recently tried to alias ls to ls -G -la command. I opened up ~/.zshrc, put in the alias, relaunched the terminal, but the change didn't take effect. Upon ...
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