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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] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I Alias "sudo !!" with "plz"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I rawdog every single command, I use no aliases at all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I couldn't even work if I had aliases in my muscle memory. Imagine ssh'ing to a server and every second command you issue doesn't exist because it's some weird alias you set up for yourself.

I'll stick with the "pure" command and use tab completion.

That's also part of the reason why I don't use some of the fancy new tools like ripgrep and exa.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I remember when Linux was first becoming cool, in the mid-to-late 90s. There was a lot of folk wisdom going around, and one of them was "make an alias rm='rm -i' so you don't accidentally delete anything!"

And then there was the (correct, IMHO) counter-wisdom of "no, that actually makes it more likely to accidentally delete something, because one day you're going to be on a machine where that alias doesn't exist, but you've become dependent on it existing".

I don't mind creating aliases to add colour or change formatting a little bit or something, but don't make an alias to keep yourself safe, because it'll probably backfire on you.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What... I didn't know this was a thing.

So I could make be "sudo gimme-dat-new-new" Instead of "sudo DNF upgrade -y"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

you can just put "gimme-dat-new-new"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

alias gimmie-dat-new-new='sudo dnf upgrade -y'

Although you should probably look over your upgrade before applying it as a general good practice. But, hey, I do this myself (dnfup instead of gimmie-dat-etc.), so I can't talk too much shit.

ETA: If you want it to be a persistent alias, though, you gotta add it to your .bashrc

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

(Bash-Specific)

App-Specific

alias battery='upower -i $(upower -e | grep 'BAT') | grep -E "state|to\ full|percentage"' # Get the battery level of my laptop server when I ssh into it

alias audio="yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3" # Download the audio version of a youtube video

alias wttr="curl wttr.in/Chicago" # Get the weather of my city in the terminal

Terminal Navigation

alias ba2sy="cp ~/.bash_aliases ~/Sync/" # copy my current iteration of my aliases to my shared syncthing folder so that it's accessible across devices

alias sy2ba="cp ~/Sync/.bash_aliases ~/" # replace the current iteration of my aliases w/ the synced version from my syncthing folder

alias mba='micro .bash_aliases' # open my aliases file in the modernized version of 'nano'

alias reload="source ~/.bashrc" # Quickly refresh my system so that the latest alias file is loaded

alias l='exa --group-directories-first -hlras modified --no-user --icons' # exa is a prettier version of ls. Options toggled: Human-readable, long format, reverse output, show hidden files/folders, sort by modified, hide the 'user' column since I'm the only one that uses the computer, and show the icons to make it look fancy```

Replaced Commands

alias cat='batcat --theme=ansi ' # Replace generic output of cat w/ a formatted version. This is bat (batcat in Debian)

alias rm='trash ' # Instead of auto-deleting files, put them in the 'trash' bin for 30 days, then delete.

Server & Docker-related

alias lazy='/home/macallik/.local/bin/lazydocker' # Run Docker

alias pad='ssh MyPad20334' # shorthand to ssh into my server

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Some QoL stuff my good friend set-up for me.

# ALIASES -- EXA
alias ls='exa --group-directories-first --color=auto -h -aa -l --git'

# ALIASES -- YAY
alias yy='yay -Y --needed --norebuild --nocleanafter --nodiffmenu --noredownload --nocleanmenu --removemake --sudoloop'
alias ya='yay -S --needed --norebuild --nocleanafter --nodiffmenu --noredownload --nocleanmenu --removemake --sudoloop'
alias yu='yay -R --recursive --nosave'

# ALIASES -- CP
alias cp="cp --reflink=auto -i"

And then there's a bunch of stuff from the output of alias, most of them are git aliases. Those which aren't git-related are listed below:

-='cd -'
...=../..
....=../../..
.....=../../../..
......=../../../../..
1='cd -1'
2='cd -2'
3='cd -3'
4='cd -4'
5='cd -5'
6='cd -6'
7='cd -7'
8='cd -8'
9='cd -9'
_='sudo '
cp='cp --reflink=auto -i'
egrep='grep -E --color=auto --exclude-dir={.bzr,CVS,.git,.hg,.svn,.idea,.tox}'
fgrep='grep -F --color=auto --exclude-dir={.bzr,CVS,.git,.hg,.svn,.idea,.tox}'
history=omz_history
l='ls -lah'
la='ls -lAh'
ll='ls -lh'
ls='exa --group-directories-first --color=auto -h -aa -l --git'
lsa='ls -lah'
md='mkdir -p'
rd=rmdir
run-help=man
which-command=whence
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good to see another exa user. Care to break down what yay does btw?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah, yay is an AUR helper, though I personally see it as a pacman helper as well. Link here. Some of the flags and options that can be used for pacman can be used for yay, thus, some of the flags in the aliases I use are actually for pacman. Anyways, on to the breakdown.

alias yy='yay -Y --needed --norebuild --nocleanafter --nodiffmenu --noredownload --nocleanmenu --removemake --sudoloop'

This one is what I use to look up for packages. The result of runnning yy «search term» would be a list of packages matching the search term and prompting the user on which package(s) to install.

flag description
-Y performs yay-specific operations.
--needed (pacman) do not reinstall up to date packages
--norebuild skips package build if in cache and up to date
--nocleanafter do not remove package sources after successful build
--noredownlod skip pkgbuild download if in cache and up to date
--nodiffmenu don't show diffs for build files
--nocleanmenu don't clean build PKGBUILDS
--removemake remove makedepends after install
--sudoloop loop sudo calls in the background to avoid timeout

alias ya='yay -S --needed --norebuild --nocleanafter --nodiffmenu --noredownload --nocleanmenu --removemake --sudoloop'

This one is what I use for installing packages. Useful if I already know what package I would be installing.

flag description
-S (pacman, extended by Yay to cover AUR as well) Synchronize packages. Packages are installed directly from the remote repositories, including all dependencies required to run the packages.

alias yu='yay -R --recursive --nosave'

This one is what I use when uninstalling packages. I usually check the package name with something like yay -Qi «package-name-guess» beforehand.

flag description
-R (pacman, extended by Yay to also remove cached data about devel packages) Remove package(s) from the system.
--recursive (pacman) Remove each target specified including all of their dependencies, provided that (A) they are not required by other packages; and (B) they were not explicitly installed by the user. This operation is recurisve and analogous to a backwards --sync operation.
--nosave (pacman) Instructs pacman to ignore file backup designations. (This avoids the removed files being renamed with a .pacsave extension.)

I actually don't know much about both yay and pacman myself, since the aliases were just passed onto me by the same friend who helped me (re-)install my system (long story) and set-up the aliases. Having looked all these up, however, I might make a few changes (like changing the --nocleanafter and --nocleanmenu options to their clean ones`).

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

vim grindset 💪

alias q=exit
alias :q=exit
alias :wq=exit
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I got so much crap gathered throughout the years... some of them I don't even use, but, here they are:

#!/usr/bin/zsh
# vi: ft=zsh

#############
# zsh aliases
#############

# grep
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
alias zgrep='zgrep --color=auto'

# processes
#alias pss='ps auxww | grep -v grep | grep'   # show all processes with user, hide grep itself
alias top='top -i -e m -E m'                # hide inactive and zombie processes, show ram in MB

# update system
alias p='sudo pacman'
alias pu='paru -Sua --noconfirm'
# clean up
alias pc='sudo pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qdtq) --noconfirm 2>/dev/null; paru -Sccd --noconfirm'

# lvim
alias nvim='lvim'
alias vim='lvim'
alias vi='lvim'
alias v='lvim'

# cpg & mvg
alias cp='/usr/bin/cpg -ig'
alias mv='/usr/bin/mvg -ig'

# other useful ones
alias rm='trash'
alias duu='du -d 1 -h'

# wayland
alias gparted='sudo /bin/env WAYLAND_DISPLAY="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/$WAYLAND_DISPLAY"  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/user/run/0  /usr/sbin/gparted'

# edit configs
alias vcs="$EDITOR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/starship/config.toml"     # starship
alias vca="$EDITOR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.yml"  # alacritty
alias vct="$EDITOR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tmux/tmux.conf"           # tmux
alias vcv="$EDITOR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/init.vim"            # neovim
alias vcl="$EDITOR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lvim/config.lua"          # lunarvim
alias vch="$EDITOR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hypr/hyprland.conf"       # hyprland
alias vcw="$EDITOR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/waybar/config"            # waybar

# edit & source zsh configs
alias scz="source $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc"
alias vcz="$EDITOR $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc && source $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc"
alias vczo="$EDITOR $ZDOTDIR/options && source $ZDOTDIR/options"
alias vczb="$EDITOR $ZDOTDIR/bindkeys && source $ZDOTDIR/bindkeys"
alias vcze="$EDITOR $ZDOTDIR/exports && source $ZDOTDIR/exports"
alias vcza="$EDITOR $ZDOTDIR/aliases && source $ZDOTDIR/aliases"
alias vczc="$EDITOR $ZDOTDIR/completions && source $ZDOTDIR/completions"
alias vczf="$EDITOR $ZDOTDIR/functions && source $ZDOTDIR/functions"

# other cool toys
alias exa='exa --long --header --git --sort=name --group-directories-first'
alias ls='exa'
alias cat='bat -pp'
alias bat='bat --style=full'

# x11
# alias X='startx ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/X11/xinitrc'
# alias XX='~/.screenlayout/home2.sh'
# alias kb='setxkbmap -rules evdev -model pc105 -layout "ro,de" -variant "basic" -option "grp:shift_caps_toggle"'

# tmux
alias tmux="tmux -f $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tmux/tmux.conf"
alias t="tmux new-session -A -s id"

# dmenu stuff
# alias dnm='networkmanager_dmenu'
# alias dbt='dmenu-bluetooth'

# other cli utils
alias pm='pulsemixer'

# locations
alias lab='cd ~/priv/code/lab'
alias own='cd ~/priv/code/own'
alias pixl='aft-mtp-mount ~/priv/pixl'

# cleanup home
alias irssi="irssi --home ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/irssi"
alias svn="svn --config-dir ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/subversion"
alias wget="wget --hsts-file=$XDG_DATA_HOME/wget-hsts"

# dotfiles
alias stowe="sudo stow -d $HOME/.dotfiles/etc/ -t /etc/"

# ansible
alias ansible-vault='EDITOR=lvim ansible-vault'

# acme
alias acme='acme.sh --home "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/acme.sh/'

# vscode
alias code='vscodium --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland'

# time sync
alias synctime='echo "time now:" && date && sudo systemctl stop ntpd && sudo ntpd -gq && sudo systemctl start ntpd && echo "new time:" && date'

# nordvpn
alias nvro='sudo systemctl start nordvpnd && nordvpn c ro && nordvpn whitelist add subnet 10.0.0.0/8 && nordvpn set dns 10.10.10.10'
alias nvdown='nordvpn d && sudo systemctl stop nordvpnd'

# work
alias vpnup='nmcli con up vpn-work --ask'
alias vpndown='nmcli con down vpn-work'
alias vpn='nmcli con down vpn-work; nmcli con up vpn-work --ask'
alias vault-connect='source $HOME/work/secrets/vault.work'
alias terraform-connect='source $HOME/work/secrets/terraform.work'
alias teamsx='killall -15 teams'
alias adm='sudo mount /home/$HOME/work/adm'
alias mongo='ssh -L \*:27777:appserver:27017 jumphost'

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So I've checked and...

alias la='ls -a'
alias mplayer='mplayer -noautosub -alang en'
alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lh'
alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lAa'
alias x='startx'
alias ekgi='ekg -i'
alias glinks='links2 -g'

My god, this must be in my .bashrc since forever. I mean... links2? ekg? startx? It's like archeology.

I will keep it there for future historians.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)
alias ls='ls --time-style=long-iso'
alias la='ls -alh'
alias ncdu='ncdu --color=off'
alias wttr='curl wttr.in/?T0'
alias vim='vimx'
alias ipinfo='curl ipinfo.io --no-progress-meter | jq "del(.readme)"'
alias pp="pkill -SIGSTOP -f "
alias pc="pkill -SIGCONT -f "
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another wttr user 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what is vimx just wondering ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems to be just normal vim, maybe some distros packages the binary (of vim with more options enabled at compile time) as vimx so that it doesn't conflict with another vim package (as an example vim-tiny). https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-vimx/

But only @aram@[email protected], can answer that for us.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ussr

For connecting as root with a private key on my main server named Undine Sous Speed.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite one: alias upgrate="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ahhh a pormanteau lol, I like it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A different way to do the usual ..="cd .." and endless chains of ...="cd ../.." types of aliases:

bash/ksh version:

..() {
    local count="${1:-1}"
    local path="../"
    while (( --count > 0 )); do
        path="$path../"
    done
    cd -- "$path"
}

zsh single-line version:

..() { cd $(printf "../%.s" {1..${1:-1}}) }

These take the number of directories that you want to move up as an argument (e.g. .. 3), otherwise they move you up one directory when used with no arguments.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

alias nano='nano -l'

my only one, to have line numbers when searching for errors in log files

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Just some simple stuff:

Strix ~> alias
alias balanced 'asusctl profile -P balanced'
alias performance 'asusctl profile -P performance'
alias quiet 'asusctl profile -P quiet'
alias upd 'yay ; flatpak update'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I alias most of my flatpaks to autorun, made a tool for that called flatalias.

https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/flatalias

Also

set fish_greeting

alias update='flatpak update -y && notify-send -a Updater "Flatpaks ready" && rpm-ostree update && notify-send -a Updater "rpm-ostree ready"'

alias upfin='flatpak update -y && rpm-ostree update && shutdown -h now''

alias flatrm='flatpak remove --delete-data'

alias ls="ls --color=auto -GF"

alias reload="source ~/.config/fish/config.fish && echo 'Fish-config updated'"

abbr conf "kate ~/.config/fish/config.fish && source ~/.config/fish/config.fish && echo 'Fish-config updated'"

### NETWORKING
abbr myip 'curl ifconfig.co'
abbr netlisten 'netstat -plntu'
abbr pingtest 'ping -c 2 wikipedia.de'

abbr rpmq "distrobox enter -n fedora -- dnf search"
abbr rstat "rpm-ostree status"

abbr rpmfind "rpm -qa | grep"

abbr flatinst 'flatpak install -y'

abbr flatfind "flatpak list | grep"

abbr history-off 'set +o history'

abbr sshcloud "ssh -i /home/user/.local/share/Cryptomator/mnt/SSH-keys/KEYNAME -p PORTNUMBER root@IP
# and others

abbr httpcode "curl --head --silent --output /dev/null --write-out '%{http_code}' "

abbr "pin-this" "ostree admin pin 0"
abbr "q" "exit"
abbr c "clear"

abbr errors-boot "journalctl -b"
abbr errors-last-boot "journalctl -b -1"

function copy
    if test -f $argv[1]
        cat $argv[1] | wl-copy
        echo "Copied to clipboard."
    else
        echo "Error: '$argv[1]' is not a file!"
    end
end

abbr off "shutdown -h now"

function findmod
    set mod_path (whereis $argv[1] | cut -d' ' -f2)
    kate $mod_path;
end

function mdtopdf -a filename
  set -x name (basename $filename .md)
  pandoc $filename -o $name.pdf | tee $name.pdf
end

function mdtoodt -a filename
  set -x name (basename $filename .md)
  pandoc $filename -o $name.odt | tee $name.odt
end

function mdtotex -a filename
  set -x name (basename $filename .md)
  pandoc $filename -s -o $name.tex | tee $name.tex
end

abbr rootfish "sudo -i fish"

abbr eng "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
abbr english "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
alias conf='nano ~/.config/fish/config.fish'
alias reload='. ~/.config/fish/config.fish'

alias pipwire-restart="systemctl --user restart pipewire.service"

function tarbrot #not yet fully working I think
    if test -z $argv[1]
        echo "Usage: tarbrot "
        return 1
    end

    set folder $argv[1]
    set tarball (basename $folder).tar
    set brotli_file $tarball.br

    # Start the timer
    set start_time (date +%s)

    # Create a tarball without compression
    tar -cf $tarball $folder

    # Display the time elapsed
    set end_time (date +%s)
    set elapsed_time (math $end_time - $start_time)

    # Compress the tarball with Brotli
    brotli $tarball && rm -f "$tarball"

    echo "Folder '$folder' has been tarred and Brotli compressed as '$brotli_file'"
    echo "Time elapsed: $elapsed_time seconds"
    echo "Size of compressed file: (du -h $brotli_file | awk '{print $1}')"
end

I use fish btw, nice shell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here ya go

Discussion and suggestions welcome :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the focus on verbosity. I should probably set more of my defaults to follow the same thought process 🤔

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
alias a='alias'

a c='clear'
a p='pwd'
a e='exit'
a q='exit'

a h='history | tail -n20'
# turn off history, use 'set -o history' to turn it on again
a so='set +o history'

a b1='cd ../'
a b2='cd ../../'
a b3='cd ../../../'
a b4='cd ../../../../'
a b5='cd ../../../../../'

a ls='ls --color=auto'
a l='ls -ltrhG'
a la='l -A'
a vi='gvim'
a grep='grep --color=auto'

# open and source aliases
a oa='vi ~/.bash_aliases'
a sa='source ~/.bash_aliases'

# sort file/directory sizes in current directory in human readable format
a s='du -sh -- * | sort -h'

# save last command from history to a file
# tip, add a comment to end of command before saving, ex: ls --color=auto # colored ls output
a sl='fc -ln -1 | sed "s/^\s*//" >> ~/.saved_commands.txt'
# short-cut to grep that file
a slg='< ~/.saved_commands.txt grep'

# change ascii alphabets to unicode bold characters
a ascii2bold="perl -Mopen=locale -Mutf8 -pe 'tr/a-zA-Z/𝗮-𝘇𝗔-𝗭/'"

### functions
# 'command help' for command name and single option - ex: ch ls -A
# see https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help for a better script version
ch() { whatis $1; man $1 | sed -n "/^\s*$2/,/^$/p" ; }

# add path to filename(s)
# usage: ap file1 file2 etc
ap() { for f in "$@"; do echo "$PWD/$f"; done; }

# simple case-insensitive file search based on name
# usage: fs name
# remove '-type f' if you want to match directories as well
fs() { find -type f -iname '*'"$1"'*' ; }

# open files with default application, don't print output/error messages
# useful for opening docs, pdfs, images, etc from command line
o() { xdg-open "$@" &> /dev/null ; }

# if unix2dos and dos2unix commands aren't available by default
unix2dos() { sed -i 's/$/\r/' "$@" ; }
dos2unix() { sed -i 's/\r$//' "$@" ; }
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A bit long, but here goes:

Start gomuks Matrix Client

alias gomuks=/home/craig/.local/bin/gomuks-linux-arm64

walk: Terminal File Manager

https://github.com/antonmedv/walk

alias walk="walk --icons"

Weather:https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

alias weather="/home/craig/.local/bin/weather.sh"

Onelinershell https://github.com/Onelinerhub/shellhub

alias oh="/home/craig/.local/bin/oh.sh"

Show open ports

alias ports='sudo netstat -tulanp'

Refresh .bashrc

alias bashrc="source ~/.bashrc"

become root

alias root='sudo -i' alias su='sudo su'

Fix which

alias which='command -v'

APT User Commands

alias search='apt search' alias file='apt-file search' alias policy='apt policy' alias show="nala show"

if user is not root, pass all commands via sudo

if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then alias update='sudo apt update' alias ainstall='sudo apt install' alias apurge='sudo apt purge -y --autoremove' alias upgrade='sudo nala upgrade' alias aremove='sudo apt autoremove -y' alias clean='sudo nala clean' alias reboot='sudo reboot' alias shutdown="sudo shutdown -P now" fi

Handy-dandy aliases for journalctl and systemctl

alias jc='sudo journalctl -b' alias jca='sudo journalctl' alias jcf='sudo journalctl -f' alias jcr='sudo journalctl --list-boots' alias sc='sudo systemctl'

Making files immortal & executable

alias im+="sudo chattr +i" alias im-="sudo chattr -i" alias exe="sudo chmod +x"

#Add safety nets

do not delete / or prompt if deleting more than 3 files at a time

alias rm='rm -I --preserve-root'

confirmation

alias mv='mv -i' alias cp='cp -i' alias ln='ln -i'

Parenting changing perms on /

alias chown='chown --preserve-root' alias chmod='chmod --preserve-root' alias chgrp='chgrp --preserve-root'

copy the current working directory to the clipboard

alias cpwd='pwd | xclip -selection clipboard'

Clipboard

alias cpy="xclip -selection clipboard"

quick directory movement

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

go to the last directory you were in

alias back='cd $OLDPWD'

quickly find files and directory

alias ff='find . -type f -name' alias fd='find . -type d -name'

Create Python virtual environment

alias ve='python3 -m venv ./venv' alias va='source ./venv/bin/activate'

Ping Commands

Stop after sending count ECHO_REQUEST packets

alias ping='ping -c 5' alias pg="ping google.com -c 5"

alias shortcuts

alias rpi="sudo rpi-update" alias rpi-next="sudo BRANCH=next rpi-update" alias raspi="sudo raspi-config" alias clr="clear" alias clrh="history -c -w ~/.bash_history" alias df='df -H' alias du='du -ch' alias mk="mkdir -p" alias loading="sudo dmesg > ~/dmesg.txt"

ls Commands

Colorize the ls output and human readable sizes

alias ls='ls --color=auto --human-readable -al'

Use a long listing format

alias ll='ls -la'

Show hidden files

alias l.='ls -d .* --color=auto'

Listing files in folder

alias listkb="ls -l --block-size=K" alias listmb="ls -l --block-size=M"

Colorize the grep command output for ease of use (good for log files)##

alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias egrep='egrep --color=auto' alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'

Colorize diff output

alias diff='colordiff'

Start calculator with math support

alias bc="bc -l"

Resume wget by default

alias wget="wget -c"

ps Commands

alias ps="ps auxf"

Get top process eating cpu

alias pscpu="ps auxf | sort -nr -k 3" alias pscpu10="ps auxf | sort -nr -k 3 | head -10"

Get top process eating memory

alias psmem='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4' alias psmem10='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10'

Free and Used Ram

alias meminfo='free -l' alias free='free -mt'

Run top in alternate screen

alias top='tput smcup; top; tput rmcup'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i wanna see u try use a vanilla profile

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

the only thing this does is add "--recursive" to every git clone invocation


git() {
  if [ "$1" = clone ]; then
    shift
    set -- clone --recursive "$@"
  fi
  command git "$@"
}
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
ccd() {
  mkdir "$1" && cd "$1"
}
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

Because I'm to lazy to type

history | grep whatever_I'm_looking_for

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have codebase of 5k lines. Most used are git commands (squash all to merge base, push to current branch, commit with format etc), work shortcuts for starting projects, time logging, startup programs. Then I have some cli interface for redo commands, size of current folders for disk pruning, abandoned project alias, os commands like brightness adjust, launch game on steam with qwert instead of dvorak keyboard, search cli history, kill with regex matching...

Just anything that I don’t want to Google twice. bash is life

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feel free to call me a poser, a scrub, etc but I don't use aliases (other than the default ones, that is).

Why? Two words:

Brain. Exercise.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

alias cat lolcat
alias ccat whatever ohmyzsh does for their colorize extension, I know it’s a function alias

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Call me weird, I don't have any.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

alias clear="clear; fastfetch"
alias sudo="doas"
alias clr="clear"
alias kx="killall Xwayland"
alias vpython="~/newVenv/bin/python"
alias vpip="~/newVenv/bin/pip"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just use ^L instead of clear.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've got the standard ones (l, ll, ls) to be forms of ls -flags

df = df -h
mv = mv -i
rm = rm -i
nix-switch = sudo nix-rebuild --switch flake .
nix-upd = nix flake update
systat = systemctl status
sysena = sudo systemctl enable
systop = sudo systemctl stop

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