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Commands tagged alias

Terminal - Commands tagged alias - 24 results

alias ltmux="if tmux has; then tmux attach; else tmux new; fi"

2010-07-19 01:27:47

User: tensorpudding

Functions: alias

Tags: bash alias sh tmux

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Alias for lazy tmux create/reattach

If a tmux session is already running attach it, otherwise create a new one. Useful if you often forget about running tmuxes (or just don't care)

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svn up -r PREV # revert

2010-07-07 23:09:00

User: unixmonkey10719

Tags: history alias search command quick bashrc

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Quick and Temporary Named Commands

* Add comment with # in your command

* Later you can search that command on that comment with CTRL+R

In the title command, you could search it later by invoking the command search tool by first typing CTRL+R and then typing "revert"

alias sorth='sort --help|sed -n "/^ *-[^-]/s/^ *$-[^ ]* -[^ ]*$ *$.*$/\1:\2/p"|column -ts":"'

2010-06-10 21:30:31

User: AskApache

Functions: alias column sed

Tags: bash sort sed uniq alias column sorting reverse help askapache sh fields unique buffer

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View advanced Sort options, Quick Reference Help Alias

Once you get into advanced/optimized scripts, functions, or cli usage, you will use the sort command alot. The options are difficult to master/memorize however, and when you use sort commands as much as I do (some examples below), it's useful to have the help available with a simple alias. I love this alias as I never seem to remember all the options for sort, and I use sort like crazy (much better than uniq for example).

# Sorts by file permissions

find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %p\n' | sort -k1 -r -g -bS 20%

00761 drwxrw---x ./tmp

00755 drwxr-xr-x .

00701 drwx-----x ./askapache-m

00644 -rw-r--r-- ./.htaccess

# Shows uniq history fast

history 1000 | sed 's/^[0-9 ]*//' | sort -fubdS 50%

exec bash -lxv

export TERM=putty-256color

Taken from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

alias dateh='date --help|sed "/^ *%a/,/^ *%Z/!d;y/_/!/;s/^ *%$[:a-z]\+$ \+/\1_/gI;s/%/#/g;s/^$[a-y]\|[z:]\+$_/%%\1_%\1_/I"|while read L;do date "+${L}"|sed y/!#/%%/;done|column -ts_'

This is sample output - yours may be different.


(1:2751)$ dateh
%a         Sat                              locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
%A         Saturday                         locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%b         Apr                              locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
%B         April                            locale's full month name (e.g., January)
%c         Sat 24 Apr 2010 05:29:05 AM EDT  locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar  3 23:05:25 2005)
%C         20                               century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21)
%d         24                               day of month (e.g, 01)
%D         04/24/10                         date; same as %m/%d/%y
%e         24                               day of month, space padded; same as %%d
%F         2010-04-24                       full date; same as %Y-%m-%d
%g         10                               last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)
%G         2010                             year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V
%h         Apr                              same as %b
%H         05                               hour (00..23)
%I         05                               hour (01..12)
%j         114                              day of year (001..366)
%k          5                               hour ( 0..23)
%l          5                               hour ( 1..12)
%m         04                               month (01..12)
%M         29                               minute (00..59)
%n
a newline
%N         037105000                        nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
%p         AM                               locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known
%P         am                               like %p, but lower case
%r         05:29:06 AM                      locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
%R         05:29                            24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
%s         1272101346                       seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
%S         06                               second (00..60)
%t                                                a tab
%T         05:29:06                         time; same as %H:%M:%S
%u         6                                day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
%U         16                               week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%V         16                               ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
%w         6                                day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
%W         16                               week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%x         04/24/2010                       locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
%X         05:29:06 AM                      locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
%y         10                               last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y         2010                             year
%z         -0400                            +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)
%:z        -04:00                           +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00)
%::z       -04:00:00                        +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)
%:::z      -04                              numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30)
%Z         EDT                              alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

2010-04-21 01:22:18

User: AskApache

Functions: alias column date read sed

Tags: bash sed alias column read while date loop for substitution askapache sh POSIX locale parameter

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View all date formats, Quick Reference Help Alias

If you have used bash for any scripting, you've used the date command alot. It's perfect for using as a way to create filename's dynamically within aliases,functions, and commands like below.. This is actually an update to my first alias, since a few commenters (below) had good observations on what was wrong with my first command.

# creating a date-based ssh-key for askapache.github.com

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/`date +git-$USER@$HOSTNAME-%m-%d-%g` -C 'webmaster@askapache.com' # /home/gpl/.ssh/git-gplnet@askapache.github.com-04-22-10

# create a tar+gzip backup of the current directory

tar -czf $(date +$HOME/.backups/%m-%d-%g-%R-`sed -u 's/\//#/g' <<< $PWD`.tgz) . # tar -czf /home/gpl/.backups/04-22-10-01:13-#home#gpl#.rr#src.tgz .

I personally find myself having to reference

date --help

quite a bit as a result. So this nice alias saves me a lot of time. This is one bdash mofo. Works in sh and bash (posix), but will likely need to be changed for other shells due to the parameter substitution going on.. Just extend the sed command, I prefer sed to pretty much everything anyways.. but it's always preferable to put in the extra effort to go for as much builtin use as you can. Otherwise it's not a top one-liner, it's a lazyboy recliner.

Here's the old version:

alias dateh='date --help|sed "/^ *%%/,/^ *%Z/!d;s/ \+/ /g"|while read l;do date "+ %${l/% */}_${l/% */}_${l#* }";done|column -s_ -t'

This trick from my [ http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html bash_profile ]

alias head='head -n $((${LINES:-`tput lines 2>/dev/null||echo -n 12`} - 2))'

2010-04-08 22:37:06

User: AskApache

Functions: alias echo

Tags: bash tail echo alias HEAD output ncurses tput askapache /dev/null ps1 SIGWINCH LINES variable

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Alias HEAD for automatic smart output

Run the alias command, then issue

ps aux | head

and resize your terminal window (putty/console/hyperterm/xterm/etc) then issue the same command and you'll understand.

${LINES:-`tput lines 2>/dev/null||echo -n 12`}

Insructs the shell that if LINES is not set or null to use the output from `tput lines` ( ncurses based terminal access ) to get the number of lines in your terminal. But furthermore, in case that doesn't work either, it will default to using the deafault of 12 (-2 = 10).

The default for HEAD is to output the first 10 lines, this alias changes the default to output the first x lines instead, where x is the number of lines currently displayed on your terminal - 2. The -2 is there so that the top line displayed is the command you ran that used HEAD, ie the prompt.

Depending on whether your PS1 and/or PROMPT_COMMAND output more than 1 line (mine is 3) you will want to increase from -2. So with my prompt being the following, I need -7, or - 5 if I only want to display the commandline at the top. ( http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash-power-prompt.html )

275MB/748MB

[7995:7993 - 0:186] 06:26:49 Thu Apr 08 [askapache@n1-backbone5:/dev/pts/0 +1] ~

In most shells the LINES variable is created automatically at login and updated when the terminal is resized (28 linux, 23/20 others for SIGWINCH) to contain the number of vertical lines that can fit in your terminal window. Because the alias doesn't hard-code the current LINES but relys on the $LINES variable, this is a dynamic alias that will always work on a tty device.

alias info='info --vi-keys'

2010-02-16 16:35:17

User: eightmillion

Functions: alias

Tags: alias info

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shell function to make gnu info act like man.

I use this alias in my bashrc. The --vi-keys option makes info use vi-like and less-like key bindings.

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alias :q='tput setaf 1; echo >&2 "this is NOT vi(m) :/"; tput sgr0'

2009-12-08 12:59:44

User: sputnick

Functions: alias echo tput

Tags: vim alias vi tput

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Know when you will type :q in your term instead of vi(m), the alias will chewed you out.

For vi(m) users :

Add it in your ~/.bashrc

Add an "exit" @ the end if you are masochist ;)

alias burnaudiocd='mkdir ./temp && for i in *.[Mm][Pp]3;do mpg123 -w "./temp/${i%%.*}.wav" "$i";done;cdrecord -pad ./temp/* && rm -r ./temp'

2009-11-21 19:57:18

User: eightmillion

Functions: alias mpg123 rm

Tags: alias cd mp3 record CDDA burn

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Burn a directory of mp3s to an audio cd.

This uses mpg123 to convert the files to wav before burning, but you can use mplayer or mencoder or ffmpeg or lame with the --decode option, or whatever you like.

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alias whatismyip="wget -q -O - http://whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp"

2009-10-30 15:42:52

User: gibboris

Functions: alias

Tags: alias IP wget address

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What is my ip?

The preferred way for scripts (and easier to parse)

alias ':q'='exit'

2009-09-05 17:59:50

User: tobiasboon

Functions: alias

Tags: vim alias exit :q

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alias to close terminal with :q

Put this in your ~/.bashrc file (or the equivalent)

If you use vim a lot, this alias will be immediately obvious. Your brain will thank you.

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old='apt-get'; new="su-${old}"; command="sudo ${old}"; alias "${new}=${command}"; $( complete | sed -n "s/${old}$/${new}/p" ); alias ${new}; complete -p ${new}

2009-08-10 00:15:05

User: Josay

Functions: alias sed

Tags: bash alias completion aliases

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Define an alias with a correct completion

In Bash, when defining an alias, one usually loses the completion related to the function used in that alias (that completion is usually defined in /etc/bash_completion using the complete builtin).

It's easy to reuse the work done for that completion in order to have smart completion for our alias.

That's what is done by this command line (that's only an example but it may be very easy to reuse).

Note 1 : You can use given command line in a loop "for old in apt-get apt-cache" if you want to define aliases like that for many commands.

Note 2 : You can put the output of the command directly in your .bashrc file (after the ". /etc/bash_completion") to always have the alias and its completion

alias launchpadkey="sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys"

2009-06-17 12:02:27

User: azeey

Functions: alias

Tags: alias apt-key

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Alias for getting OpenPGP keys for Launchpad PPAs on Ubuntu

Makes it easy to add keys to new ppa sources entries in apt sources.list

Now to add the key for the chromium-daily ppa:

launchpadkey 4E5E17B5

type -all command

2009-05-27 02:57:32

User: marssi

Functions: type

Tags: alias

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Find if the command has an alias

kill_daemon() { echo "Daemon?"; read dm; kill -15 $(netstat -atulpe | grep $dm | cut -d '/' -f1 | awk '{print $9}') }; alias kd='kill_daemon

2009-05-26 20:39:56

User: P17

Functions: alias awk cut echo grep kill netstat read

Tags: alias kill netstat

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Kill a daemon by name, not by PID

Just find out the daemon with $ netstat -atulpe. Then type in his name and he gets the SIGTERM.

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rm_cache() { rm -f $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/Cache/* }; alias rmcache='rm_cache'

2009-05-08 14:00:42

User: P17

Functions: alias rm

Tags: alias

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Clears Firefox` cache without clicking around

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alias s='ssh -l root'

2009-05-07 15:57:12

User: GouNiNi

Functions: alias

Tags: ssh alias shortcut completion

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Ultra shortcut for ssh root@

When you have to manage lot of servers, it's boring to type ssh root@myhost for each connection. Now you can type juste "s someting" and you are connected.

You can too add bash_completion script to complet with tab the name of your servers. This will be the next tips from me ;)

mkdir $(date +%Y%m%d)

2009-04-25 14:16:45

User: thebodzio

Functions: date mkdir

Tags: alias date mkdir

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Create directory named after current date

Not a discovery but a useful one nontheless.

In the above example date format is 'yyyymmdd'. For other possible formats see 'man date'.

This command can be also very convenient when aliased to some meaningful name:

alias mkdd='mkdir $(date +%Y%m%d)'

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alias lg='ls --color=always | grep --color=always -i'

2009-04-11 23:15:12

User: kFiddle

Functions: alias grep

Tags: ls alias color grep

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Quick case-insenstive partial filename search

This is a simple command, but extremely useful. It's a quick way to search the file names in the current directory for a substring. Normally people use "ls *term*" but that requires the stars and is not case insensitive. Color (for both ls and grep) is an added bonus.

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function t { ls -ltch $* | head -20 ; }

2009-03-25 20:05:52

User: totoro

Functions: head ls

Tags: alias directory files

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A bash function to show the files most recently modified in the named (or current) directory

Coming back to a project directory after sometime elsewhere?

Need to know what the most recently modified files are?

This little function "t" is one of my most frequent commands.

I have a tcsh alias for it also:

alias t 'ls -ltch \!* | head -20'

alias showip="ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | sed 's/.*addr\:$.*$ Bcast\:.*/\1/'"

2009-03-25 07:50:12

User: dizzgo

Functions: alias

Tags: ifconfig alias IP

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alias to show my own configured ip

parses the output of ifconfig to show only the configured ip address (in this case from interface eth0).

the regexp is quick'n'dirty im sure it can be done in a better way.

--> this alias does not show your "internet ip" when you're in a nat-environment

alias tproxy='ssh -ND 8118 user@server&; export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libtsocks.so"'

2009-03-24 20:24:17

User: P17

Functions: alias export

Tags: Network alias

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Creates a proxy based on tsocks.

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alias myip='curl -s www.wieistmeineip.de | egrep -o "[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}"'

2009-03-24 20:21:36

User: P17

Functions: alias egrep

Tags: alias

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Shows your WAN IP, when you`re sitting behind a router

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alias mux='clear && cd ~/Music/ && ls && echo -n "File> " && read msi && mplayer ~/Music/$msi'

2009-03-23 10:45:27

User: Noxn

Functions: alias cd echo ls read

Tags: mplayer alias music

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Quick alias for playing music.

An alias i made for myself to play music in a faster way.

Works great when you have Guake / Tilda installed (Console that drops down like in the game QUAKE)

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I put this in my bash_alias file (I'm on ubuntu, the bash_alias file does autostart with the right config) but it works putting it in bashrc too. Or anything that autostarts when the console is opened.

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Needs Mplayer and music files to work. With out music theres nothing to play!

Oh, and also, without modification, this alias will try to play stuff from your ~/Music folder! (case sensitive). Make sure that folder exists and has music OR edit this alias to fit your needs.

alias lh='ls -a | egrep "^\."'

2009-03-05 20:36:58

User: fabs

Functions: alias egrep

Tags: bash hidden ls alias

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alias to list hidden files of a folder

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