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.
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.
Not the person you responded to, but sure. Breaking muscle memory is extremely grating.
Also, it’s pretty easy to type long commands with little typing. If you use ctrl+r to search backward in your history, you can easily recall long commands - and also, you can use ctrl+x,ctrl+e to edit the current command line in $EDITOR so you can edit long commands. These two tricks make it very easy to type long commands quickly with very little typing.
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'
Good to see someone else using trash & bat. Kudos for the clean alias file w/ commented headers too! I just started doing it recently and it makes edits/additions so much easier
For me, it once caused an issue once when I thought I was deleting files to make space for /boot/efi/ being at capacity (dual booting issues at the time) when in actuality I was just moving files to an impromptu trash can created on /boot/efi (so the lack of space remained the same lol), but on numerous occasions, it has actually saved my ass and allowed me to retrieve documents that I realized I needed to look at again.
The only other quirk is it straight up ignores all options, so I've tried to delete interactively (rm -i) and then had to use trash-list to view the deleted files
Maybe I’m being a little paranoid, but I DID accidentally delete a few directories with dotenvs in them, which is what led me to find trash in the first place. That experience really traumatized me… so to break the rm habit and make sure I don’t do that on ANY computer I set up abbr rm '# Don't use this! Use trash-cli instead’ # and abbr t trash.
I try to keep backups of almost everything, so even if I accidentally delete something and only notice after a clear the trash, there is still a chance I will recover the missing pieces.
Thanks. It's not the prettiest, but I try to keep an order of some kind... My zshrc was getting quite large, so I split it and when I did that I also put in some comments and headers.
alias clear="clear; fastfetch" alias sudo="doas" alias clr="clear" alias kx="killall Xwayland" alias vpython="~/newVenv/bin/python" alias vpip="~/newVenv/bin/pip"
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.
I’ve got aliases for every faltpak app I launch in the terminal for instance I’ve got code for vscodium or steam for well steam for example, I also alias some system commands so I have an update-grub, update, etc…
When I switched to KDE I started using kate, but I used to have code as my vscodium alias as well. One interesting thing is seeing how similar people think. No wonder standard password guesses are so easy lol.
On a related note, I tried to make my SSH port based on the letters turned into numbers and realized that had been done before and was google-able also lol
I don’t like having to renavigate to my project directory in a new terminal:
<span style="color:#323232;">alias clone='(pwd | urxvt & disown $!)'
</span>
Takes my current directory and opens it in my terminal. Then it disowns that new terminal process, so if I close the current terminal the new one doesnt disappear with it.
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