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MacOS: Make the terminal app always quit when

When you use the "exit" command in a Linux terminal window, it not only closes the terminal window itself but also the terminal emulator app, such as GNOME Terminal or Konsole, that it belongs to. If you use the "exit" command on macOS, however, Terminal.app still shows a dot below its Dock icon and is still running in the background. This alias, when entered into ~/.zshrc, overrides this behavior.
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alias exit="killall Terminal"

realkstrawn93 · 2023-09-18 04:41:06 133
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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kill_daemon() { echo "Daemon?"; read dm; kill -15 $(netstat -atulpe | grep $dm | cut -d '/' -f1 | awk '{print $9}') }; alias kd='kill_daemon

P17 · 2009-05-26 20:39:56 7
alias to list hidden files of a folder
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alias lh='ls -a | egrep "^\."'

fabs · 2009-03-05 20:36:58 11
Shorthand to install package in Ubuntu

I put this line in my ~/.bashrc file (which I source via ~/.bash_profile). Now, when I need to install a package, I typed *install* instead of the longer version.
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alias install='sudo apt-get install'

haivu · 2011-10-27 19:53:01 23
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 ;) Show Sample Output
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```
user@localhost:~$ s myhost
Last login: Mon May  4 15:16:18 2009 from 10.40.29.72
[root@myhost ~]#
```
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alias s='ssh -l root'

GouNiNi · 2009-05-07 15:57:12 11
move you up one directory quickly
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alias ..='cd ..'

kev · 2011-10-28 10:12:57 11
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Listen to a song from youtube with youtube-dl and mpv

Explanation Firstly the function checks if user gave it any input, and notifies the user if they failed to do so. If user has inputed a search string, the function will call upon youtube-dl to find url of the audio of the first matching youtube video and play that with mpv. Call function by wrapping search string in quotes: listen-to-yt "sultans of swing" You have to paste the line in your .zshrc and source .zshrc for it to work. Limitations The dependancies are youtube-dl and mpv. this oneliner is stolen from http://www.bashoneliners.com/oneliners/302/

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

export iPad App list to txt file

This will generate the same output without changing the current directory, and filepath will be relative to the current directory. Note: it will (still) fail if your iTunes library is in a non-standard location.

Switch to the previous branch used in git(1)

Very useful if you keep switching between the same two branches all the time.

launch bash without using any letters

ry4an@four:~$ echo $SHLVL 1 ry4an@four:~$ ${0/-/} ry4an@four:~$ echo $SHLVL 2

Git Global search and replace

Find all the occurrences in the git repo of 'foo' and replace with 'bar'

Make a directory named with the current date

Create a directory named with the current date in ISO 8601 format (yyyy-mm-dd). Useful for storing backups by date. The --iso switch may only work with GNU date, can use format string argument for other date versions.

Process command output line by line in a while loop

This snippet allows to process the output of any bash command line by line.

host - DNS lookup utility

host is a simple utility for performing DNS lookups. It is normally used to convert names to IP addresses and vice versa. When no arguments or options are given, host prints a short summary of its command line arguments and options.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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