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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MoriGM@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

What are your most liked alias for long commands or just to give them better names.

Mine are:

alias load="source .load.sh"
alias eload="$EDITOR .load.sh"
alias gpush="git push"
alias gadd="git add --all"
alias gcommit="git commit -m "
alias gst="git status -s"
alias gpull="git pull"
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[–] Plasma@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] coleman@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

My variant (u mean "up" in my head)

alias u  ='cd ..'
alias uu ='cd ../..'
alias uuu='cd ../../..'
[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

AmigaOS style!

[–] xycu@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

alias ll="ls - l"

My most-used, by far, for decades.

This and alias la="ls -lhA"

[–] nihilomaster@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

For just a second I thought this was Loss

[–] docrobot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

alias weather='curl wttr.in'

[–] cheerupcharlie@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I found a function version of this version somewhere. Same thing except it defaults to my local area but can be overridden if you specify a different zip code.

weather() {
 if [ $(command -v curl) ]; then
   if ! (($#)); then
     curl wttr.in/44113
   else
     curl wttr.in/$1
   fi
 else
   echo "curl not installed. Aborting."
 fi
}
[–] knobbysideup@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago
become="sudo su -"
pb="ansible-playbook"
[–] wasabi@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago
alias clearswap='sudo swapoff -a && sudo swapon -a'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias ls='ls --color=auto --group-directories-first'
alias la='ls -lAh --color=auto --group-directories-first'
alias timestamp='date +%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S'
[–] cheerupcharlie@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I always set these because I've been burned too many times:

Turn on interactive mode for dangerous commands

alias cp='cp -iv'
alias mv='mv -iv'
alias rm='rm -iv'
[–] Lemmyin@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago

Here are mine. Sorry for the mouth full, but I think people may benefit from some of these :)

alias ll="ls -alkhF"
alias l="ls -1"

# BE CAREFUL WITH THIS AND COULD RETURN COLOR KEYCODES INTO PIPES ETC...
alias grep='grep --color=always' 

alias db='dotnet build'

alias gs='git status'
alias gf='git fetch'
alias gl='git pull'
alias gp='git push'
alias gpt='git push --tags'
alias gP='git push --force-with-lease'
alias ga='git add'
alias gd='git diff'
alias gw='git diff --word-diff'
setopt interactive_comments
preexec(){ _lc=$1; }
alias gcm='git commit -m "${_lc#gcm }" #'

# THE BELOW TO BE USED ALONG WITH THE FOLLOWING GIT ALIASES:
#[alias]
#	logo = log --pretty=tformat:'%C(auto,red)%m %C(auto,yellow)%h%C(auto,magenta) %G? %C(auto,blue)%>#(12,trunc)%ad %C(auto,green)%<(15,trunc)%aN%C(auto,reset)%s%C(auto,red) %gD %D' --date=short
#	adog = log --all --decorate --oneline --graph
#	dog = log --decorate --oneline --graph

alias glog='git logo'
alias gdog='git dog'
alias gadog='git adog'

alias gb='git branch'
alias gba='git branch --all'
alias gco='git checkout'
alias gm='git merge'
alias gt='git tag | sort -V | tail'

alias rl='source ~/.zshrc'
alias n='nvim'

# LIST PATHS OF OTHER ZSH SHELLS I HAVE OPEN
lssh() {
	ps au \
		| awk '$11 == "-zsh" || $11 == "/bin/zsh" { print $2 }' \
		| xargs pwdx \
		| awk '{ print $2 }' \
		| sed -n "\|^${2}.*|p" \
		| sort -u \
		| nl
}

# CD TO SHELL NUMBER RETURNED BY LSSH
cdsh() {
	cd $(lssh \
		| sed "$1!d" \
		| cut -f 2)
}

# CD TO PATH OF ANOTHER SHELL, USING FZF AS SELECTOR
cs() {
	cmd1=$(lssh | fzf --select-1 --query "$1" --height=~50 | cut -f 2)
	cmd="cd $cmd1"
	print -S $cmd
	eval $cmd
}

# RUN THE COMMAND FROM HISTORY, USING FZF AS SELECTOR, ALTERNATIVE TO <C-R>
hf() {
	cmd=$(history 0 | sort -nr | cut -c 8- | fzf -e --select-1 --no-sort --query "$1" )
	# push the command into the history
	print -S $cmd
	eval $cmd
}

# REMMINA USING THE CONNECTION FILE SELECTED USING FZF
rf() {
	pushd ~/.local/share/remmina
	cmd=$(remmina -c $(ls $PWD/* | fzf -e --select-1 --no-sort --query "$1"))
	# push the command into the history
	print -S $cmd
	eval $cmd
	popd
}
[–] brad@toad.work 2 points 2 years ago

Here's my .bash_aliases file

Good luck, I'm dogshit at maintaining the comments lol

[–] jks@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Not exactly an alias but a short script. First, get git-revise which is a replacement for git rebase, and fzf if for some reason you don't have it yet. Then make a script in your ~/.local/bin called git-f or whatever you'd like:

#!/bin/bash
REF=${1:-origin/main}  # adjust to your favorite trunk branch name
COMMIT=$(git log --pretty=oneline ${REF}.. \
         | fzf --preview "git show -p --stat {+1}" | cut -d' ' -f1)
if [ -n "$COMMIT" ]; then
    exec git revise "$COMMIT"
else
    exit 1
fi

Now hack away in a branch, make some commits, and at some point you will realize you want to modify an earlier commit. Use git add -p to add the relevant lines, but then instead of making a fixup commit just type git f and pick the target commit from the list.

[–] literally1848@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

alias clearswap='sudo swapoff -a && sudo swapon -a

alias reload='source ~/.bashrc'

scan_local() {

 local_ip=$(ip addr show wlan0 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F '/' '{print $1}')

 sudo nmap -sn "$local_ip/24"

}

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use this function to launch GUI apps from the shell without occupying that shell or cluttering it with their output:

nown() {
        if [ -n "$1" ]
        then
                nohup $@ &> /dev/null & disown
        else
                echo "Don't give me a null command dumbass."
        fi
}
[–] MoriGM@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

I maybe will steal that for myself.

[–] swodig@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

alias ta="tmux attach -t"

[–] bahmanm@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
alias et='emacsclient -ct'
alias ec='emacsclient -cn'
alias make='make --warn-undefined-variables'
[–] Penguincoder 2 points 2 years ago
alias fuck='sudo $(history -p \!\!)'
alias hstat='curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out '\''%{http_code}\n'\'''
alias ls='ls -la --color=auto'
alias pwgen='< /dev/urandom tr -dc "_A-Z-a-z-0-9\#\+=\$" | head -c${1:-15};echo;'

And a function


function weather() {
  ( IFS=+; curl wttr.in/$(curl -s http://ipwho.is/ | jq .postal););
}
[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I made a cool exercise some time ago: checking my top 10 used commands, to see how I can "optimize" them, and maybe create a few aliases to save a few keystrokes. Turns out I don't need that much aliases in the end:

alias v='vis' # my text editor
alias sv='doas vis'
alias ll='ls -l'

And that's pretty much it ^^ I do have a lot of scripts though, some of them being one-liners, but it makes them shell independent, which I like :)

For reference, here is my analysis of my top 10 most used commands.

edit: I do have a bunch of git aliases though for common subcommands I use. I prefer using them as git <alias> over using she'll specific aliases so I can always type "git" and not mentally think wether I need a git command or a shell alias.

[–] MoriGM@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Vis nether heard of this editor

[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Then you should definitely check it out: vis.

Its original goal was to be a vim clone with 90% of the features in 10% of the code. Then it grew into being the bastard son of Vim and Sam editors (plan9's structural regex based editor).

The result is vis, an editor with vim like navigation and text manipulation mechanics, but with access to Sam's powerful structural regex commands which works selection wise, rather than likewise like vim. Check this paper to learn about it: struct-regex.pdf.

[–] kurros 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

cp replacement with progress updates: alias cp="rsync -ah --progress"

[–] gbin@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting, git do support aliases too. "git st" etc What is .load.sh?

[–] MoriGM@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I mostly write my environment and aliases which are only ment to be used for a project by creating a file called .load.sh. It is mostly just things like alias run="python main.py" or something

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

dc="docker-compose" saves me soooo much time!

[–] MoriGM@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah thanks forgot docker compose to put into my aliases

[–] gideonstar@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

^D my dude.

[–] coleman@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I do this but with xx because I'm too scared

[–] pspinler 1 points 2 years ago

A quick upper and lower case alias lc='tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"' alias uc='tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"'

And because I work a lot with ldap, and ldapsearch returns wrapped text that I can't pass to another pipe stage (e.g. grep, sort): alias unwrapLDIF="perl -p0e 's/\n //g'"

[–] minorsecond@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
alias ein='f() { sudo emerge -av $1 };f'
alias eup='sudo emerge -avuDN @world'
[–] poeplva@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The first alias actually gave me some ideas, thanks for that. But I don't understand how is what you did is really different from alias ein='sudo emerge -av'. I think the only thing that is different is the way you do it ein abc def will be the same as ein abc, but why would you want this?

[–] minorsecond@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I just realized what you were asking lol. I’ve had a couple beers, sorry.

Your idea may work, I’ll have to try it.

[–] minorsecond@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The second one updates world, so you get a system update.

[–] cefadroxilthranduil 1 points 2 years ago

I use fish abbreviations instead, that way I can still use tab completions (and I like it when i still see the full command):

    abbr ffzf "fzf --layout reverse-list --color --preview 'bat -p --color always {}' --preview-window right:wrap -e --info inline-right"

    abbr _light 'xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s Fluent-round-yellow-Light-compact && xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/IconThemeName -s Fluent && xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/theme -s Next'  
    abbr _dark 'xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s Fluent-round-yellow-Dark-compact && xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/IconThemeName -s Fluent-dark && xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/theme -s Next'

    # VOID SPECIFIC
    abbr xup 'sudo xbps-install -Suv'
    abbr xin 'sudo xbps-install -Rs'
    abbr xre 'sudo xbps-remove -Rv'
    abbr xor 'sudo xbps-remove -ov'
    abbr xs 'xbps-query -Rs'
[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't use aliases. Since I use fish as a login shell, I use abbreviations. I have a lot of them configured. But I think my favorite one is yeet which expands to paru -Rcns.

[–] MoriGM@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

What a nice abbreviation of the conventional way of declaring the minimanalasation of a command. I need to check out fish but i don't really know about it so much.

[–] Moonwalk@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like to use the ones includes in oh-my-zsh. It's a big list, but the ones I use the most are:

gst --> git status

gcam --> git commit -am

gcp --> git cherry-pick

gsta --> git stash save

gstp --> git stash pop

gpsup --> git push --set-upstream origin $(git_current_branch)

grb --> git rebase

[–] Nellum@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

alias gladog="git log —all —decorate —oneline —graph" is my all time favourite. Sometimes I just want to have a quick way to see the git graph in the terminal.

[–] bomgar@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In case you don't know this give tig a try.

[–] Nellum@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I didn’t. Thanks, I will have a look at it.

[–] conc@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] MoriGM@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] conc@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] MoriGM@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

That's always the best fun

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