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Share a script/alias you use a lot
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I've only used aliases twice so far. The first was to replace yt-dlp with a newer version because the version that comes pre-installed in Linux Mint is too outdated to download videos from YouTube. The second was because I needed something called "Nuget". I don't remember exactly what Nuget is but I think it was a dependency for some application I tried several months ago.
Nuget is a the .NET package manager. Like npm or pip, but for .NET projects.
If you needed it for a published application that strikes me as fairly strange.
I looked through my bash history and it looks like I needed it to build an Xbox eeprom editor for Xemu. Xemu doesn't (or at least didn't, I haven't used newer versions yet) have a built in eeprom editor and editing the Xbox eeprom is required for enabling both wide screen and higher resolutions for the games that support them natively.
I just looked at Xemu's documentation, and it looks like they've added a link to an online eeprom editor, so the editor I used (which they do still link to) is no longer required.
Ah, if you need to build a .NET project that makes sense
For the newer version of program, that's why we have the $PATH. You put your program into one of the directories that is in your $PATH variable, then you can access your script or program from any of these like a regular program. Check the directories with
echo "$PATH" | tr ':' '\n'My custom scripts and programs directory is "~/.local/bin", but it has to be in the $PATH variable too. Every program and script i put there can be run like any other program. You don't even need an alias for this specific program in example.