g-push
which is alias for
git push origin `git branch --show`
Which I'm writing on my phone without testing or looking
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g-push
which is alias for
git push origin `git branch --show`
Which I'm writing on my phone without testing or looking
For Debian based/descended distros:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
And technically I also regularly use
redshift -O 3000
all of the blue light filter programs try to align themselves with a user's geographic location and time, but I don't keep normal hours
Chuck the -y in there for extra lazy mode
I would but much like somebody else's recent post I have in the past nuked my install by blindly agreeing to some recommended software removals before. These days I like to double check what packages are being updated and replaced.
In my ~/.bashprofile:
alias resource="source ~/.bashprofile"
In my terminal:
resource
Anything to save a few characters
omz reload
not going to say zsh is better than bash or fish, but oh-my-zsh does make it more attractive for some use-cases
diff -y -W 200 file1 file2
Shows a side by side diff of 2 files with enough column width to see most of what I need usually.
I have actually aliased this command as diffy
ctrl-r
searching bash history
du -sh * | sort -h
shows size of all files and dirs in the current dir and sorts them in ascending order so you can easily see the largest files or dirt ant the end of the list
ls -ltr
Shows the most recently modified files at the end of the listing.
ls and cd
I do love fuck
.
More of a shortcut, CTRL + A + D
to exit the current session (exits a sudo su first, then a ssh, then the actual terminal)
does it do all of those with one press? Id that what the 'A' is for?
xdg-open FILE
- opens a file with the default GUI app. I use it for example to open PDFs and PNG. I have a one letter alias for that. It can also open a file explorer in the current directory xdg-open .
. Should work on any compliant desktop environment (gnome/kde).
I use "ping" every time I suspect my internet might be going a bit slow.
cd
then ls
then cd
then ls
maybe Iโll throw a ls -a
I use -A instead, which doesn't show "." and ".."
GNU Parallel
clear
because apparently I am too scatterbrained to comprehend more than one full page of text in the terminal
I like using CRTL+L to clear. It's nice because you can have a command typed out and still be able to press CTRL+L to clear the screen and keep the command typed out.
I almost never use clear because i'm afraid if i will need the text later.(just like infinity tab number on firefox)
* 20
Oh god I also do this... See the comment below, I ran history|cut -d " " -f 5|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|less
on my personal laptop, my third most commonly used command (behind ls
and cd
) is just typing in nothing...
Saving this thread for later, but I use rsync -a a lot.
I went a little overboard and wrote a one-liner to accurately answer this question
history|cut -d " " -f 5|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -5
Note: history
displays like this for me
20622 2023-02-18 16:41:23 ls
I don't know if that's because I set HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '
in .bashrc, or if it's like that for everyone.
If it's different for you change -f 5
to target the command. Use -f 5-7
to include flags and arguments.
My top 5 (since last install)
2002 ls
1296 cd
455 hx
427 g
316 find
g
is an alias for gitui. When I include flags and arguments most of the top commands are aliases, often shortcuts to a project directory.
Not to ramble, but after doing this I figured I should alias the longest, most-used commands (even aliasing ls
to l
could have saved 2002 keystrokes :P) So I wrote another one-liner to check for available single characters to alias with:
for c in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do [[ ! $(command -v $c) ]] && echo $c; done
In .bash_aliases I've added alias b='hx ${HOME}/.bash_aliases'
to quickly edit aliases and alias r='source ${HOME}/.bashrc'
to reload them.
Uhhh...sudo su
Don't be like me
sudo -i
tldr
because I am too impatient to read through man pages or google the exact syntax for what I want to do.
There are exactly three kinds of manpages:
I will take 1 any day over 2 or 3. Sometimes I even need 1, so I'm grateful for them.
But holy goddamn is it awful when I just want to use a command for aguably its most common use case and the flag or option for that is lost in a crowd of 30 other switches or buried under some modal subcommand. grep
helps if you already know the switch, which isn't always.
You could argue commands like this don't have "arguably most common usecases", so manpages should be completely neutral on singling out examples. But I think the existence of tl;dr is the counterargument.
Tangent complaint: I thought the Unix philosophy was "do one thing, and do it well"? Why then do so many of these shell commands have a billion options? Mostly /s but sometimes it's flustering.
Sudo !!
It reruns the last command as sudo.
Pretty useful since I'm always forgetting.
Neofetch
let me guess, you either use arch or gentoo
Going to shamelessly plug my custom bashrc setup which has a ton of little scripting helpers and a few useful aliases. Remember to clone recursively if you want to try it out. (Still very much a work in progress, but it's getting to be pretty robust)