I also love them global aliases! To push them even further (like the xargs one), I have those aliases to allow me to do quick iterations in 'streaming' fashion:

I also love them global aliases! To push them even further (like the xargs one), I have those aliases to allow me to do quick iterations in 'streaming' fashion: alias -g FORI='| while read i ; do ' alias -g IROF='; done '