I was looking around for some useful bash shell aliases for Linux and thought that best place to ask this kind of question is HN.
Thank You.
Ask HN: What is your suggested bash shell aliases for Linux?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your suggested bash shell aliases for Linux?
#2It really depends on what you're looking for (more towards development or sys admin stuff?)
I started out with http://dotfiles.github.io/ and then populated a Git repo from there.
Personally, I have things that make it easy to apply patches, create diffs, change to frequently used dirs and the likes.
Re: Ask HN: What is your suggested bash shell aliases for Linux?
#3v for vim
l for ls -ltr
Re: Ask HN: What is your suggested bash shell aliases for Linux?
#4I have a bunch of operating system and distro-sensitive aliases for installing, removing and upgrading software using whatever package manager the system has:
https://github.com/eudoxia0/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.shell...
Re: Ask HN: What is your suggested bash shell aliases for Linux?
#5alias please='sudo $(history -p !!)'
Re: Ask HN: What is your suggested bash shell aliases for Linux?
#6alias please='sudo $(history -p !!)'
you can use: sudo !!
Re: Ask HN: What is your suggested bash shell aliases for Linux?
#7Re: Ask HN: What is your suggested bash shell aliases for Linux?
#8Personally, I use `.` as an alias for a very flagged `ls`, and `..` as an alias for `cd .. && .`. It clobbers the existing `.` but it saves me a good bit of time navigating directories.
Re: Ask HN: What is your suggested bash shell aliases for Linux?
#9rm as an alias for rm -i ;)