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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darcy, 
vim grindset 💪
<span style="color:#62a35c;">alias </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">q</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">exit </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">alias </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">:q</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">exit </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">alias </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">:wq</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">exit </span>
alper_celik, I have :q to exit too since i was trying to exit shell with :q. I guess (n)vim users cant exit their shells :)
darcy, we spent so much time learning to exit vim, we forgot how to exit shell 😔
PseudoSpock, 
alias .=exit
gamma, 
That would make my shell unusable, since some plugins use
./source.
PseudoSpock, ./ and . Are two different things to your shell
gamma, (edited ) I know; I’m not talking about
./. I put the slash outside the inline codeblock in the parent comment.My shell is setup with a chdir hook to
[[ -r. /.autoenv.zsh ]] && . ./.autoenv.zsh.(Edit: Jerboa is bugged with “&” in codeblocks, that should be a “&&”, not
&&)
PseudoSpock, Ah, ok. For me it was an alias common in the university labs back on Ultrix. Became a habit way back then.
macallik, (edited ) (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 terminalTerminal 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
babeuh,
macallik, Thanks for the heads up
RaivoKulli, I wonder if you can be a madlad and symlink your bash-aliases to a synced file.
tvcvt, Not a symlink, but you can add
source /path/to/aliasesone your bashrc file to load them from another file. I do that and keep all of my dot files in a hit repo.
macallik, Some random ones I created over the last week or so:
alias clipboard='xclip -selection clipboard' # Allows me to pipe output directly to my keyboard. good for pwd for example.
Function allows me to get tldr and cheat responses to commands quickly
function cht() {
curl cheat.sh/$1
}Easy calculator so that I can do math w/o launching a specific app
function calc() {
echo "scale=3; $@" | bc
}
craigevil, 
A bit long, but here goes:
Start gomuks Matrix Client
alias gomuks=/home/craig/.local/bin/gomuks-linux-arm64
walk: Terminal File Manager
github.com/antonmedv/walk
alias walk=“walk --icons"
Weather:github.com/chubin/wttr.in
alias weather=”/home/craig/.local/bin/weather.sh"
Onelinershell 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’
aes, i wanna see u try use a vanilla profile
megane_kun, The struggle I sometimes face when I SSH into somewhere, lol! Fortunately, there’s a lot of differences that it’s easy realize that “this is a different machine”, and I just open a different terminal tab/window to look up the pure command versions if I need to.
gamma, (NOTE: A lot of my more interesting “aliases” are actually short functions, but I’m keeping myself to
alias.)Some of mine that I haven’t seen yet:
<span style="color:#323232;"># Simple python calculator </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias pycalc='python3 -ic " </span><span style="color:#323232;">from math import *nimport cmath as C </span><span style="color:#323232;">try: </span><span style="color:#323232;"> import numpy as np </span><span style="color:#323232;">except: </span><span style="color:#323232;"> pass </span><span style="color:#323232;">i, j = 1j, 1j </span><span style="color:#323232;">"' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#323232;"># Defaults </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias cp='cp --interactive --reflink=auto' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gcc='gcc -fdiagnostics-color=auto' </span><span style="color:#323232;"># Lemmy doesn't handle ampersands in codeblocks correctly </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias rg='rg --max-columns=$((COLUMNS > 60 && ! ZSH_SUBSHELL ? COLUMNS - 30 : 0))' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias rj='rg --json' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias rm='rm -s' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias rscp='rsync -azP --human-readable --info=flist0,progress2,stats1' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias rust-c='rustc --out-dir build -O' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#323232;"># Shorter forms </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias g=git </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias v=$VISUAL </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias py=python </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias jfeu='journalctl --user -xfeu' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias sys='systemctl --user' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias Jfeu='journalctl -xfeu' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias Sys=systemctl </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#323232;"># Desktop stuff </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias trash='gio trash' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ud=udisksctl </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias y=wl-copy </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias Y='wl-copy -p' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias p=wl-paste </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias P='wl-paste -p' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#323232;"># Colorize with acolor/grc </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias GRC='grc -es' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias LA='acol ls -lFAhb --color' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias LS='acol ls -lFhb --color' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias df='GRC df -hT' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias dig='GRC dig' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias docker='GRC docker' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias docker-machine='GRC docker-machine' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias env='acol env' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias lsblk='acol lsblk' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias lsmount='command mount | rg --color=never "^/" | acol -i -o mount' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias lspci='acol lspci' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias mount='acol mount' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias nmap='acol nmap' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ping='GRC ping' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ps='GRC ps --columns $COLUMNS' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias traceroute='GRC traceroute' </span>
garam, <span style="color:#323232;">alias ls='ls --time-style=long-iso' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias la='ls -alh' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ncdu='ncdu --color=off' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias wttr='curl wttr.in/?T0' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias vim='vimx' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ipinfo='curl ipinfo.io --no-progress-meter | jq "del(.readme)"' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias pp="pkill -SIGSTOP -f " </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias pc="pkill -SIGCONT -f " </span>
darcy, what is vimx just wondering ?
CjkOvPDwQW, 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). www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-vimx/
But only @aram@lemmy.my.id, can answer that for us.
garam, vimx support X/Wayland copy paste, using "+y or "+p
Like GVim, but on terminal… haha…
macallik, Another wttr user 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
noli, Hehe pp
garam, pp = process pause = pkill -f SIGSTOP
I hate when Win10 idle/pause on KVM/QEMU still taking much CPU, and the only way to stop it using pp/pkill…
ExLisper, So I’ve checked and…
<span style="color:#323232;">alias la='ls -a' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias mplayer='mplayer -noautosub -alang en' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lh' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lAa' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias x='startx' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ekgi='ekg -i' </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias glinks='links2 -g' </span>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.
deo, I will keep it there for future historians.
great, now i have spit coffee all over the place. thanks for the laugh!
SGHFan, 
Call me weird, I don’t have any.
d00phy, Me either. I do a lot of initial setup for customer sites. Don’t want to get too used to customized shells or tmux.
Mambert, I Alias “sudo !!” with “plz”
Cwilliams,
uberrice, For me it’s stfu
flying_wotsit, here we go, in no particular order:
<span style="color:#323232;">claer=clear </span><span style="color:#323232;">gvim='nvim +Gclog +Git' </span><span style="color:#323232;">vim=nvim </span><span style="color:#323232;">vi=/usr/bin/vim </span><span style="color:#323232;">v=/usr/bin/vi </span><span style="color:#323232;">glog='git log --oneline --graph --all' </span><span style="color:#323232;">rcp='rsync -r --info=progress2 --partial' </span><span style="color:#323232;">d0='du -h --max-depth 0' </span><span style="color:#323232;">d1='du -h --max-depth 1' </span><span style="color:#323232;">ls='ls --time-style=long-iso --color=tty' </span><span style="color:#323232;">icat=chafa </span><span style="color:#323232;">ssh='TERM=xterm-256color ssh' # (kitty messes with TERM) </span>
lenathaw, I’m stealing claer
flying_wotsit, I can’t spell when typing fast :P
Pssk, 
control+lis much easier
mojo,
alias upgrade=“sudo dnf upgrade --yes && flatpak update && flatpak remove --unused”Or something like that, also a dnf remove unused command in there. Writing this from my phone so might be written wrong.
turing_spider574,
alias nano=‘nano -l’my only one, to have line numbers when searching for errors in log files
Exec, 
Copying multiple lines will be more difficult. You can use Ctrl+C to display the current position, use page up/down for coarse navigation.
learnbyexample, 
<span style="color:#62a35c;">alias </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">a</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'alias' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#323232;">a c=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'clear' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a p=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'pwd' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a e=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'exit' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a q=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'exit' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#323232;">a h=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'history | tail -n20' </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># turn off history, use 'set -o history' to turn it on again </span><span style="color:#323232;">a so=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'set +o history' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#323232;">a b1=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'cd ../' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a b2=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'cd ../../' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a b3=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'cd ../../../' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a b4=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'cd ../../../../' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a b5=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'cd ../../../../../' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="color:#323232;">a ls=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'ls --color=auto' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a l=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'ls -ltrhG' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a la=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'l -A' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a vi=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'gvim' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a grep=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'grep --color=auto' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># open and source aliases </span><span style="color:#323232;">a oa=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'vi ~/.bash_aliases' </span><span style="color:#323232;">a sa=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'source ~/.bash_aliases' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># sort file/directory sizes in current directory in human readable format </span><span style="color:#323232;">a s=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'du -sh -- * | sort -h' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># save last command from history to a file </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># tip, add a comment to end of command before saving, ex: ls --color=auto # colored ls output </span><span style="color:#323232;">a sl=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'fc -ln -1 | sed "s/^s*//" >> ~/.saved_commands.txt' </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># short-cut to grep that file </span><span style="color:#323232;">a slg=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'< ~/.saved_commands.txt grep' </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># change ascii alphabets to unicode bold characters </span><span style="color:#323232;">a ascii2bold=</span><span style="color:#183691;">"perl -Mopen=locale -Mutf8 -pe 'tr/a-zA-Z/𝗮-𝘇𝗔-𝗭/'" </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">### functions </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># 'command help' for command name and single option - ex: ch ls -A </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># see https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help for a better script version </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">ch</span><span style="color:#323232;">() { whatis $1</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; </span><span style="color:#323232;">man $1 </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">sed -n </span><span style="color:#183691;">"/^s*$</span><span style="color:#323232;">2</span><span style="color:#183691;">/,/^$/p" </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; </span><span style="color:#323232;">} </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># add path to filename(s) </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># usage: ap file1 file2 etc </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">ap</span><span style="color:#323232;">() { </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">for</span><span style="color:#323232;"> f </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">in </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">@</span><span style="color:#183691;">"</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; do </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">echo </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">PWD</span><span style="color:#183691;">/$</span><span style="color:#323232;">f</span><span style="color:#183691;">"</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; done; </span><span style="color:#323232;">} </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># simple case-insensitive file search based on name </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># usage: fs name </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># remove '-type f' if you want to match directories as well </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">fs</span><span style="color:#323232;">() { find -type f -iname </span><span style="color:#183691;">'*'"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">1</span><span style="color:#183691;">"'*' </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; </span><span style="color:#323232;">} </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># open files with default application, don't print output/error messages </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># useful for opening docs, pdfs, images, etc from command line </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">o</span><span style="color:#323232;">() { xdg-open </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">@</span><span style="color:#183691;">" </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">&</span><span style="color:#323232;">amp</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">;></span><span style="color:#323232;"> /dev/null </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; </span><span style="color:#323232;">} </span><span style="color:#323232;"> </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># if unix2dos and dos2unix commands aren't available by default </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">unix2dos</span><span style="color:#323232;">() { sed -i </span><span style="color:#183691;">'s/$/r/' "$</span><span style="color:#323232;">@</span><span style="color:#183691;">" </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; </span><span style="color:#323232;">} </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">dos2unix</span><span style="color:#323232;">() { sed -i </span><span style="color:#183691;">'s/r$//' "$</span><span style="color:#323232;">@</span><span style="color:#183691;">" </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; </span><span style="color:#323232;">} </span>
noughtnaut, What do you use the ascii to bold function for?
learnbyexample, I used to use it for posting on Twitter, with some keywords (like book title) in bold.
bubstance, (edited ) A different way to do the usual
…=“cd …”and endless chains of…=“cd …/…”types of aliases:
bash/kshversion:<span style="color:#323232;">..() { </span><span style="color:#323232;"> local count="${1:-1}" </span><span style="color:#323232;"> local path="../" </span><span style="color:#323232;"> while (( --count > 0 )); do </span><span style="color:#323232;"> path="$path../" </span><span style="color:#323232;"> done </span><span style="color:#323232;"> cd -- "$path" </span><span style="color:#323232;">} </span>
zshsingle-line version:<span style="color:#323232;">..() { cd $(printf "../%.s" {1..${1:-1}}) } </span>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.
macallik, Thanks for sharing, likely will implement this!
adam, There is a shell option for this (at least in zsh):
setopt autocd. This allows you to change directories while omitting the cd in front
milkjug, I’m a simple man. I do simple things. I replace
df,lsandtopwith more modern alternatives. Courtesy of this list.<span style="color:#323232;">alias df="duf" </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ls="eza --group-directories-first --long --group --sort=ext --icons --all" </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias top="btm" </span>
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