I pretty much skip aliases and only make functions most of the time. I do have exceptions, but for the most part I have a "master" .bash_funcs config that I use on most of my machines that I have been building/editing/refactoring for MANY years that has all my favorite stuff in it.
Even for non-args stuff.
It's really hard to pick; so much of it saves time or keystrokes and I find most of them essential.
If you consider small one liner or simple functions as aliases then a few I love are:
Alternate touch
Use null to zero/create a file.
function touchf(){[[$# -gt 0 ]]&&cat /dev/null >"$*";}
Use realpath with Fuzzy Finder to get the a full path (alternate method)
function realfzf(){ find "$(realpath$*)"-iname"*" | fzf;}
I have a much smaller alias file (< 10 old aliases that plan to functionize at some point lol)
Always force make parent directories if they don't exist
alias mkdir='mkdir -p'
'ls' with no color for various reasons
I usually either have 'ls' aliased to default list with colors (I think it's preset in some envs) and this overrides it when I need output without color
alias lsn='ls --color=never'
And one for fun :D Show time in the console but in alternating colors.
I have plans to rewrite this using '\r' instead of clear
alias colortime='while :; do for i in {{30..37},{90..97}}; do echo -en "\e[0;${i}m$(date +%r)\e[0m ";sleep 1;clear;
done; done'
I have so many functions I love I could just keep going, but my main function file is around 8500 lines so I won't do that to you lol.
Do you have these functions in a public repository? I'd love to check them out.
I've a handful of functions that I rarely use anymore like one that took an argument like docs mdn that would open my browser to Mozilla's documentation and docs til that would open my TIL (today I learned) repository on GitHub with rendered markdown.
I've only a handful of aliases as well allowing me to jump around (change dirs) into personal or work, and my dotfiles along with a couple more just masking other commands, like alias vim=nvim since I use Neovim and alias make=mmake (Modern Make)
I keep a long history and much prefer using reverse-i-search to dig up a command that I use somewhat frequently
I do actually plan on a Shell section on my main misc programming GitHub IO site that has lots of it organized, but it's still "under construction" lol. In the next couple of days I'll make a copy and clean lots of crap and redundancy out of it and put it up in a temp repo and post it back here.
I use history/fzf, but I have extra laptops that I'm always testing distros on and so I always just import my dots, but yeah I'm constantly doing Ctrl+r; FZF is just amazing.
Don’t have to mention fzf twice. It’s a must have both in my shell and Vim coupled with ripgrep. Ah! You’re a distro junkie! Haven’t settled on Arch or Gentoo?
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I'd do :> foo to do this (well, I use :>| foo because I have noclobber set, but...)
As for needing to output ls without colour, I think color=auto works for most colour-aware commands in that you get colours, but they're suppressed if the output's to a pipe. That should cover most cases?
The reason why I originally created that alias is because at some point, for whatever glitched reason, I couldn't force colors off and that was the only way I could force it off. Don't remember exactly what it was; it's been a few years and my memory has been slipping lately.
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I pretty much skip aliases and only make functions most of the time. I do have exceptions, but for the most part I have a "master" .bash_funcs config that I use on most of my machines that I have been building/editing/refactoring for MANY years that has all my favorite stuff in it.
Even for non-args stuff.
It's really hard to pick; so much of it saves time or keystrokes and I find most of them essential.
If you consider small one liner or simple functions as aliases then a few I love are:
Alternate touch
Use null to zero/create a file.
Get cursor coordinates with xdotool
Use realpath with Fuzzy Finder to get the a full path (alternate method)
I have a much smaller alias file (< 10 old aliases that plan to functionize at some point lol)
Always force make parent directories if they don't exist
'ls' with no color for various reasons
I usually either have 'ls' aliased to default list with colors (I think it's preset in some envs) and this overrides it when I need output without color
And one for fun :D Show time in the console but in alternating colors.
I have plans to rewrite this using '\r' instead of clear
I have so many functions I love I could just keep going, but my main function file is around 8500 lines so I won't do that to you lol.
Do you have these functions in a public repository? I'd love to check them out.
I've a handful of functions that I rarely use anymore like one that took an argument like
docs mdn
that would open my browser to Mozilla's documentation anddocs til
that would open my TIL (today I learned) repository on GitHub with rendered markdown.I've only a handful of aliases as well allowing me to jump around (change dirs) into personal or work, and my dotfiles along with a couple more just masking other commands, like
alias vim=nvim
since I use Neovim andalias make=mmake
(Modern Make)I keep a long history and much prefer using
reverse-i-search
to dig up a command that I use somewhat frequentlyI do actually plan on a Shell section on my main misc programming GitHub IO site that has lots of it organized, but it's still "under construction" lol. In the next couple of days I'll make a copy and clean lots of crap and redundancy out of it and put it up in a temp repo and post it back here.
I use history/fzf, but I have extra laptops that I'm always testing distros on and so I always just import my dots, but yeah I'm constantly doing Ctrl+r; FZF is just amazing.
Don’t have to mention fzf twice. It’s a must have both in my shell and Vim coupled with ripgrep. Ah! You’re a distro junkie! Haven’t settled on Arch or Gentoo?
I try anything out, but stick to Debian based. Ubuntu on main/family member machines usually. I do have a soft spot for Bodhi with Enlightenment.
I'd do
:> foo
to do this (well, I use:>| foo
because I havenoclobber
set, but...)As for needing to output
ls
without colour, I thinkcolor=auto
works for most colour-aware commands in that you get colours, but they're suppressed if the output's to a pipe. That should cover most cases?The reason why I originally created that alias is because at some point, for whatever glitched reason, I couldn't force colors off and that was the only way I could force it off. Don't remember exactly what it was; it's been a few years and my memory has been slipping lately.