Which characters are allowed in a bash alias

Question

I recently added

alias ..=\'cd ..\'
alias ...=\'cd ../..\'
alias ....=\'cd ../../..\'

to my bash_aliases file. Playing around with this, I not

Answer 1

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Aliases.html I wouldn't name an alias .. in linux . is a special name for the current director and .. is for the parent directory. there could be some obscure process that could be screwed up by aliasing .. for cd