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View the newest xkcd comic.

Add an alias to your .bashrc that allows you to issue the command xkcd to view (with gwenview) the newest xkcd comic... I know there are thousands of them out there but this one is at least replete with installer and also uses a more concise syntax... plus, gwenview shows you the downloading progress as it downloads the comic and gives you a more full featured viewing experience.
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echo alias xkcd="gwenview `w3m -dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png | awk '{print $5}'` 2> /dev/null" >> .bashrc

GinoMan2440 · 2010-01-30 20:38:16 5
Quick setup to list all directory contents by time reversed sort... most recent change last.

Create an alias to list all contents of the current directory in "reverse" time order. Thus the last modified file will appear just above your next prompt. Useful for remembering where you left off modifying files in a folder or just noting recent changes. csh format but bash syntax similar
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alias ltr 'ls -altr'

drb532 · 2011-06-11 03:22:13 5
Wordpress - download latest, extract, and rename config file.
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alias wordpress='mkdir wordpress && cd wordpress && wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz && tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz && mv wordpress/* . && rm -rf latest.tar.gz wordpress && cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php'

ahabman · 2009-02-26 03:23:18 6
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 25
it's an alias to summon the command history only for lazy people well for busy too

typing history it's a long way but typing only h it's my way it works in whatever distro or OSes or shells that you use, you know, only for easyness :) Show Sample Output
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```
............
  448  df
  449  ./wlan111
  450  mc
  451  htop
  452  history
  453  activate modulos/wine-1.1.6.lzm
  454  wine POV-Ray/bin/pvengine.exe
  455  df
  456  umount /mnt/myfs
  457  xfs_repair /dev/loop/24
  458  umount /mnt/myfs1
  459  xfs_repair /dev/loop/25
  460  dmesg
  ...........
```
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alias h='history'

ximo88 · 2009-04-28 11:20:03 4
Various git commands

g clone --local --bare . /repo.git g remote add alias /repo.git g push alias branch g log -p filename g checkout SHA1_rev g reset --hard g checkout -b new_branch g ls-files --deleted Show Sample Output
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```
g clone --local --bare . /repo.git
g remote add alias /repo.git
g push alias branch

g log -p filename

g checkout SHA1_rev
g reset --hard
g checkout -b new_branch

g ls-files --deleted
```
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alias g='git'

evandrix · 2012-08-31 05:12:56 4

Tell us quantities of disk usage memory and swap used in a moment done

A short way to give us relevant report in a moment done about quantities on disk usage, memory and swap in our Linux Systems. Show Sample Output

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alias dfr='df;free'

ximo88 · 2009-04-28 11:30:31 17

Brings you back to previous directory
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alias b='cd -'

P17 · 2009-05-05 16:21:22 6
Short alias for sudo

This is way faster than typing 'sudo'. And AFAIK - there is no decent command for letter 's'.
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alias s='sudo'

eimantas · 2010-04-17 11:30:55 9
up - aliaes for moving up the directory tree
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alias up="cd .."; alias upp="cd ../.."; alias uppp="cd ../../.."; alias upppp="cd ../../../.."; alias uppppp="cd ../../../../.."

swmcd · 2009-03-30 03:27:21 9
alias vi to emacs

add (server-start) in .emacs
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alias vi='emacsclient -n'

freestyler · 2009-07-29 06:18:40 5
alias source .bashrc and nano .bashrc

alias for editing .bashrc and sourcing it with a quick command, very useful for quickly adding and modifying alias' and functions in bashrc, create lots of alias from commandlinefu very quickly, use nano vim or any other edit if you want, very useful if you have a barcode scanner and you want to run commands quickly with barcodes Show Sample Output
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```
usage:
$ nbrc
edit .bashrc
press ctrl-x,y,enter
$ sbrc
```
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alias sbrc="source ~/.bashrc" && alias nbrc="nano ~/.bashrc"

professoralex · 2009-05-13 02:41:37 11
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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Displays user-defined ps output and pidstat output about the top CPU or MEMory users.

It grabs the PID's top resource users with $(ps -eo pid,pmem,pcpu| sort -k 3 -r|grep -v PID|head -10) The sort -k is sorting by the third field which would be CPU. Change this to 2 and it will sort accordingly. The rest of the command is just using diff to display the output of 2 commands side-by-side (-y flag) I chose some good ones for ps. pidstat comes with the sysstat package(sar, mpstat, iostat, pidstat) so if you don't have it, you should. I might should take off the timestamp... :|

Stop procrastination on Facebook.com

or echo '127.0.0.1 facebook.com' | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts Do not execute this command if you don't know what you are doing.

Adding Prefix to File name

Good old bracket expansion :-) For large numbers of files, "rename" will spare you the for-loop, or the find/exec...

Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Usage examples: say hello say "hello world" say hello+world

Print all git repos from a user

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.

Monitor iptables in realtime

show installed but unused linux headers, image, or modules

will show: installed linux headers, image, or modules: /^ii/!d avoiding current kernel: /'"$(uname -r | sed "s/$.*$-$[^0-9]\+$/\1/")"'/d only application names: s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* $[^ ]*$.*/\1/ avoiding stuff without a version number: /[0-9]/!d

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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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