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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

AmigaOS style!

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

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

alias u  ='cd ..'
alias uu ='cd ../..'
alias uuu='cd ../../..'
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

mkcd() { mkdir -p “$1” && cd “$1”; }

Make a directory and immediately cd into it. I rarely make a directory and not cd into it.

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

My app keeps crashing. That's the older version of my alias.

mkcd() { mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1"; }

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

alias weather='curl wttr.in'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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
}
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[–] xycu 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

alias ll="ls - l"

My most-used, by far, for decades.

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

This and alias la="ls -lhA"

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

In addition to this, I have lat & las with -t & -s sorting added respectively.

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

For just a second I thought this was Loss

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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'
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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
}
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I maybe will steal that for myself.

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

Here's my .bash_aliases file

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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
}
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

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

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

*ahem

alias brb='paru -Syu --noconfirm && paru -Sc --noconfirm'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You should name it alias btw=... to fully embrace our stereotype ;).

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

alias upd=“yay -Syu --devel”

alias cleanup=“yay -Qdtq | yay -Rns-”

alias mirror=“sudo reflector --verbose --country ‘United States’ --protocol https --latest 15 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && sudo eos-rankmirrors”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
become="sudo su -"
pb="ansible-playbook"
[–] literally1848 3 points 1 year 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"

}

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

alias fuck='sudo $(fc -ln -1)'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
alias et='emacsclient -ct'
alias ec='emacsclient -cn'
alias make='make --warn-undefined-variables'
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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

Vis nether heard of this editor

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

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

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

Technically not aliases but I have these in my ~/.bash_aliases so...

bind '"\e[A": history-search-backward'
bind '"\e[B": history-search-forward'

Type a few letters and press up/down arrow to scroll through matching history entries.

Also...

alias s="cd -"

It's like Alt+Tab for CLI.

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

For git and working with a mix of master and main default branch repos my favourite is gsm='git switch $(git_main_branch)' to switch back to main/master

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

^D my dude.

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