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Commands tagged alias

Terminal - Commands tagged alias - 63 results

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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