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SHARE WITH THE CLASS: What aliases are you using? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From bash to zsh and everywhere in between, show me yours and I'll show you mines. Inspire others or get some feedback.

Simply copy & paste the output of alias in your terminal or add some comments to explain things for others.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

alias hgrep='function _f(){ history | grep $1; };_f'

Because I'm to lazy to type

history | grep whatever_I'm_looking_for

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

alias rpmfind='rpm -qa | grep'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

OMG. I originally got the impression (from somewhere) that you couldn't pass arguments to an alias, so I googled and found that weird function nonsense. Oh well, live and learn. Thanks.