Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?

Post by rgomez » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 7:49 AM UTC

    # Show Disk Use of subdirectories, sort by size
    alias duss="sudo du -d 1 -h | sort -hr | egrep -v ^0"

    # Cheatsheet autogenerated from i3 configuration file
    alias i3cheatsheet="egrep ^bind ~/.i3/config | cut -d ' ' -f 2- | sed 's/ /\t/' | column -ts $'\t' | pr -2 -w 145 -t | less"

    # Show mount information in a nice format
    alias mountt="mount | column -t | sort"

    # Show remaining dirty bytes while coping to a file, very useful in XFCE not sure in other enviroments
    alias watchdirty="watch grep -e Dirty: -e Writeback: /proc/meminfo"

    
    # Bookmark directories ej. "bm a" "go a" etc
    go() { eval dir=\$$1; cd "$dir"; }
    bm() { eval $1=$(pwd); echo "`set | egrep ^[a-z]+=\/`" > ~/.bookmarks; }
    test -f ~/.bookmarks && source ~/.bookmarks

    # I use this one all the time, combined find+grep, f.e. fgr "Class" "*.cpp" "-l" (2nd and 3rd parameters optional"
    function fgr {
            NAM=""
            GREPTYPE="-i -H"
            if [ -n "$1" ]; then
                    test -n "$2" && NAM="-name \"$2\""
                    test -n "$3" && GREPTYPE=$3
                    CMMD="find . $NAM -not -path '*/\.*' -exec egrep --colour=auto $GREPTYPE \"$1\" {} + 2>/dev/null"
                    >&2 echo -e "Running: $CMMD\n"
                    sh -c "$CMMD"
                    echo ""
            else
                    echo -e "Expected: fgr  [file filter] [grep opt]\n"
            fi
    }

Post by borplk » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 9:06 AM UTC

joshstrange wrote: post #219

Grimm665 wrote: post #197

My favorite new one that I have been using a lot: function cheat() { curl cht.sh/$1 } It queries the cht.sh cheatsheet of various Unix commands. 'cheat tar' prints: # To extract an uncompressed archive: tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar # To create an uncompressed archive: tar -cvf /path/to/foo.tar /path/to/foo/ # To extract a .gz archive: tar -xzvf /path/to/foo.tgz # To create a .gz archive: tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path…

This is awesome, I ALWAYS have to google for how to untar an archive (I don't do it often enough to commit to memory) thank you!

Post by mpkc » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 12:31 PM UTC

Grimm665 wrote: post #197

My favorite new one that I have been using a lot: function cheat() { curl cht.sh/$1 } It queries the cht.sh cheatsheet of various Unix commands. 'cheat tar' prints: # To extract an uncompressed archive: tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar # To create an uncompressed archive: tar -cvf /path/to/foo.tar /path/to/foo/ # To extract a .gz archive: tar -xzvf /path/to/foo.tgz # To create a .gz archive: tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path…

Post by ikornaselur » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 12:54 PM UTC

corroded wrote: post #183

Something funny: alias crontab='fuck you, ' Background: Everyone knows that in a [in]sane workplace, you ALWAYS have to lock your machine. So this particular new hire forgot to lock her machine and one of the seniors (senior prankster, I would say) jumped into her terminal and set a crontab to run EVERY MINUTE. So she comes back (we pair program so they were actually pairing that day) and goes on with programming for…

    echo "sleep 0.1" >> ~/.zshrc

Post by axelrosen » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 2:02 PM UTC

the_jeremy wrote: post #210

#~/.inputrc is for nerds who don't want 1000-line bashrcs #C-w deletes previous word (by spaces) by default #bind C-q to delete previous word-segment instead of "start(?) term output" stty -ixon bind '"\C-q": backward-kill-word' #bind C-s to move cursor to previous [:space:] instead of "stop(?) term output" bind -r '\C-s' bind '"\C-s": shell-backward-word' #bind C-d to go forword, not crush the shell set -o ignoreeof…

  alias scs='systemctl status'
  alias jc='journalctl --unit'