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submitted 3 months ago by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

A while ago I made a tiny function in my ~/.zshrc to download a video from the link in my clipboard. I use this nearly every day to share videos with people without forcing them to watch it on whatever site I found it. What's a script/alias that you use a lot?

# Download clipboard to tmp with yt-dlp
tmpv() {
  cd /tmp/ && yt-dlp "$(wl-paste)"
}
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[-] marzhall@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

alias cls=clear

My first language was QB, so it makes me chuckle.

Also, alias cim=vim. If I had a penny...

[-] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I also have cls aliased to clear! I used to use windows terminal and found myself compulsively typing cls when I moved to linux.

[-] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago
git() {
  if [ "$1" = "cd" ]; then
    shift
    cd "./$(command git rev-parse --show-cdup)$*"
  else
    command git "$@"
  fi
}

This lets you run git cd to go to the root of your repo, or git cd foo/bar to go to a path relative to that root. You can't do it as an alias because it's conditional, and you can't do it as a git-cd command because that wouldn't affect the current shell.

[-] livingcoder@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago
# Copy pwd into clipboard using pbcopy
alias cpwd="pwd | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy && echo 'pwd copied into clipboard'"
[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Not exactly a single script, but I use scm breeze for git stuff. Has a ton of QoL features for working with git

https://github.com/scmbreeze/scm_breeze

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Polls for potential zombie processes:

# Survive the apocalypse
function zombies () {
  ps -elf | grep tsc | awk '{print $2}' | while read pid; do
    lsof -p $pid | grep cwd | awk '{printf "%-20s ", $2; $1=""; print $9}'
  done
}

export -f zombies
alias zeds="watch -c -e -n 1 zombies"
[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I've stolen a bunch of Git aliases from somewhere (I don't remember where), here are the ones I ended up using the most:

g=git
ga='git add'
gau='git add --update'
gcfu='git commit --fixup'
gc='git commit --verbose'
'gc!'='git commit --verbose --amend'
gcmsg='git commit --message'
gca='git com
gd='git diff'
gf='git fetch'
gl='git pull'
gst='git status'
gstall='git stash --all'
gstaa='git stash apply'
gp='git push'
'gpf!'='git push --force-with-lease'
grb='git rebase'
grba='git rebase --abort'
grbc='git rebase --continue'

I also often use

ls='eza'
md='mkdir -p'
mcd() { mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1" }

And finally some Nix things:

b='nix build'
bf='nix build -f'
bb=nix build -f .'
s='nix shell'
sf='nix shell -f'
snp='nix shell np#'
d='nix develop'
df='nix develop -f'
[-] lessthanseventy@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

This makes me want spacemacs for the terminal

[-] WQMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I replaced rm with trash-put, just in case I realize I need some files that I removed down the line.

alias rm='trash-put'

Official author don't recommend it due to different semantics. But honestly for my own personal use case its fine for me.


Also I like to alias xclip:

alias clippy='xclip -selection clipboard'

# cat things.txt | clippy
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[-] Nugscree@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Because using docker can sometimes cause ownership issues if not properly configured in your docker-compose.yml, I just added an alias to ~/.zshrc to rectify that.

-edit- Only run this script in your user owned directories, e.g. anything from ~/ (or /home/<your_username>) you might otherwise cause ownership issues for your system.

## Set ownership of files/folders recursively to current user
alias iownyou="sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP"
[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Similar to yours OP I copy many URLs and then run my script that takes the number of URLs I copied eg 5,and downloads them with yt-dlp and GNU parallel to ~/Videos

I use CopyQ to hold the clipboard history.

[-] t0mri@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

well i have a script. ive named it "shazam". it either creates or attachs to a tmux session named after the base name of the dir (first arg or current working directory). i also have "fzf-shazam" as the same suggests itll open a fzf finder to choose a dir to "shazam"

[-] starman@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Technically not an alias, because I just use nushell's history + autocompletion everytime I use it, but one could alias it. I think I might even write a custom command for it, with path argument, some day. Anyway, here it goes:

rsync -aPh -e "ssh -p 2222" test@172.16.0.86:/storage/emulated/0/PicturesArchive/ ~/PicturesArchive/

I run an ssh daemon on my phone, and use this snippet to back up my photos.

[-] questionAsker@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago
#Create predefined session with multiple tabs/panes (rss, bluetooth, docker...)
tmux-start 

#Create predefined tmux session with ncmpcpp and ueberzug cover
music 

#Comfort
ls = "ls --color=auto"
please = "sudo !!"

#Quick weather check
weatherH='curl -s "wttr.in/HomeCity?2QF"' 

#Download Youtube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in playlist -> lectures, etc
ytPlaylist='yt-dlp -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"'

#Download whole album  -> podcasts primarily 
ytAlbum='yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --split-chapters --embed-thumbnail -o "chapter:%(section_title)s.%(ext)s"'

# download video -> extract audio -> show notification
ytm()
{
	tsp yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --no-playlist -P "~/Music/downloaded" $1 \
		--exec "dunstify -i folder-download -t 3000 -r 2598 -u normal  %(filepath)q"

}

# Provide list of optional packages which can be manually selected
pacmanOpts()
{
typeset -a os
for o in `expac -S '%o\n' $1`
do
  read -p "Install ${o}? " r
  [[ ${r,,} =~ ^y(|e|es)$ ]] && os+=( $o )
done

sudo pacman -S $1 ${os[@]}
}

# fkill - kill process
fkill() {
  pid=$(ps -ef | sed 1d | fzf -m --ansi --color fg:-1,bg:-1,hl:46,fg+:40,bg+:233,hl+:46 --color prompt:166,border:46 --height 40%  --border=sharp --prompt="➤  " --pointer="➤ " --marker="➤ " | awk '{print $2}')

  if [ "x$pid" != "x" ]
  then
    kill -${1:-9} $pid
  fi
}
[-] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

For me it's pretty basic. It's mostly aliases for nix related commands, like rebuild-switch, updating, garbage collecting, because those nix commands are pretty lenghty, especially with having to point to your flake and everything. I'm thinking of maybe adding an alias for cyanrip (cli cd ripper), because i recently ripped my entire cd collection, but going forward if i buy another cd every now and then, i'll probably end up forgetting about which flags i used.

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ooooh tmpv is a smart name for your little tool. I may steal it lol

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[-] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

ganis :

git add -A && sudo nixos-rebuild switch --impure -j$(nproc)

Everyone who uses nixos probably has a similar alias set x)

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have a few:

loginserver
  • 3 of these, 1 for each of my headless vm's/computers that's just an SSH command
dcompose(d/pull) - docker compose (down/pull)

3 scripts that are just docker compose up/down/pull, as scripts (remind me in 6 hours and I will post the scripts) so that it will CD to my compose folder, execute the command (with option for naming specific containers or blank for all) and then CD back to the directory I started in.

[-] livingcoder@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
# grep search the current directory
function lg() {
  ls -alt | grep $1
}
[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Currently using this to resize screenshots in a Word doc

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0

^+1:: { Send "{RButton}z{Tab 3}4{Enter}" }

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I don't have anything too fancy. I use [theFuck(https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) to handle typos, and I have some variables set to common directories that I use.

[-] tho@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago
git() {
  if [ "$1" = clone ]; then
    shift
    set -- clone --recursive "$@"
  fi
  command git "$@"
}
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