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
Not a symlink, but you can add source /path/to/aliases one your bashrc file to load them from another file. I do that and keep all of my dot files in a hit repo.
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.
Digging the systemctl ones. I added myself to the group so that I wouldn't have to write sudo each time, but I might as well alias the entire prompt for restart and status to make it even shorter
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.
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
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`).
I like the idea of binding numbers to parent directory traversal. I do cd …/… a lot in one of my projects (switching between source code and terraform folder), it’d be handy to get out of the terraform folder by just typing 2.
I actually would do cd … and then do a pwd (and so on, repeatedly) because I often get confused and have a very short attention span that the aliases ended up unused.
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
This is a separate reply since I didn’t know that you can include shell functions here.
I made this little function read_latest_log() because I just want to “read the latest log file” in a directory full of timestamped log files. I made a helper function separator_line_with_text() to help with the output, basically setting off the file-info portion (just the filename for now) from the file contents.
<span style="color:#323232;"># # separator_line_with_text
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># # Centers text in a separator line
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># #
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># # Usage:
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># # separator_line_with_text «separator_char» «text»
</span><span style="color:#323232;">separator_line_with_text() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">local separator_char="$1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">local contents_str="$2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Calculate separator_length
</span><span style="color:#323232;">local separator_length=$(( $(tput cols) - 2 - ${#contents_str} ))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Calculate the width of the left and right parts of the separator line
</span><span style="color:#323232;">local half_line_width=$(( (${separator_length}) / 2 ))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Construct the separator line using the $separator_char and $contents_str
</span><span style="color:#323232;">for ((i = 0; i « half_line_width; i++))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo -n ${separator_char}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo -n ${contents_str}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">for ((i = 0; i < half_line_width; i++))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo -n ${separator_char}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo ""
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># # read_latest_log
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># # Reads the latest log file with a timestamp in the filename.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># #
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># # Usage:
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># # read_latest_log [[«name_filter»] «extension»] «separator» «timestamp_field_number»
</span><span style="color:#323232;">read_latest_log () {
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # Check if the function has sufficient parameters
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> if [[ $# -lt 2 ]]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> echo "Error: insufficient parameters."
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> echo "Usage: read_latest_log [[«name_filter» = *] [«extension» = log] «separator» «timestamp_field_number»"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> return 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # Supposing only two parameters are provided
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # «name_filter» parameter is "*"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # «extension» parameter is "log"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> if [[ $# -eq 2 ]]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local name_filter="*"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local extension="log"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local separator="$1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local field="$2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # Supposing only three parameters are provided,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # assume that the «name_filter» parameter is "*"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> if [[ $# -eq 3 ]]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local name_filter="*"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local extension="$1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local separator="$2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local field="$3"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # If all parameters are provided, assign them accordingly
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> if [[ $# -eq 4 ]]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local name_filter="$1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local extension="$2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local separator="$3"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local field="$4"
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # Find all log files with the specified extension, sort them based on the separator and field
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local log_files=$(find . -type f -name "${name_filter}.${extension}" | sort -n -t "${separator}" -k "${field}")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # If no log files are found, display a message and return
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> if [[ -z "$log_files" ]]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> echo "No log files found."
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> return 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # Get the latest log file and its full path
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local latest_log_file=$(echo "$log_files" | tail -1)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local full_path=$(realpath "$latest_log_file")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # Define the strings for the separator line and
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> # calculate the appropriate length of the separator line
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local contents_str=" Contents "
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> local separator_char="—"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> separator_line_with_text ${separator_char} ""
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> separator_line_with_text " " ${full_path}
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> separator_line_with_text ${separator_char} ${contents_str}
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> cat "$(echo "$log_files" | tail -1)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>
Sorry for all the edits, for some reason anything that looks like an HTML tag gets erased.
Ahhh I was wondering what that was as a fellow kbin-er. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out I could create threads across the fediverse today as a consolation.
Edit: Click the 'more' button on the comment and get the fediverse link to view the formatted post
alias clear="clear; fastfetch" alias sudo="doas" alias clr="clear" alias kx="killall Xwayland" alias vpython="~/newVenv/bin/python" alias vpip="~/newVenv/bin/pip"
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
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