Post your `alias`

[Freston]

We all have them. Aliases. And I'm curious, what aliases do you use?
Who knows, might even give a few good ideas


Well, I guess I have go go first. These are some of mine:

alias renet="/etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart && /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart"
alias ll="ls -lh"
alias la="ls -a"
alias lk="ls -B"
alias lla="ls -alh"
alias lss="ls -gGShr"
alias df="df -h"
alias du="du -h"
alias grep="grep --color=auto"
alias clr="clear ; fortune -as"
alias ping="ping -c 4"
alias scrash="screen bash"
alias beep="play /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Window_Open.wav &> /dev/null"
alias dir="echo Do people still use that ancient relic from what... 1994 or so?"
alias mnt="mount|grep -v .zfs"

[elija]

I have these.

alias canhaz='sudo apt-get install'
alias cansee='sudo apt-cache search'
alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias l='ls -CF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

only two of which I set up

example: canhaz sauerbraten

[Freston]

Au! Elija, I'm very mad at you There's coffee all over my screen lol

IM in ur PROFILE looking AT ur ALIAS
   { for ALIAS in PROFILE do ROFL kthnx }
KTHNXBYE

[hazel]

I have:

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias cdd='cd /home/data'

/home/data is the "My Documents" partition, shared between Crux and Debian.

[reed9]

Mine plus a function.

alias in='sudo clyde -S'
alias up='sudo bauerbill -Syu --rebase'
alias upp='sudo clyde -Su --aur'
alias re='sudo pacman -Rcsn'
alias play="DISPLAY=:0 mplayer -fs"
alias wbur='mplayer http://wbur-ogg.streamguys.com:80/wburlive.ogg'
alias back='cd $OLDPWD'
alias ..="cd .."
alias ...="cd ../.."
alias ....="cd ../../.."
alias .....="cd ../../../.."
alias ......="cd ../../../../.."

extract () {
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
case $1 in
*.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
*.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 ;;
*.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;
*.rar) rar x $1 ;;
*.gz) gunzip $1 ;;
*.tar) tar xvf $1 ;;
*.tbz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
*.tgz) tar xvzf $1 ;;
*.zip) unzip $1 ;;
*.Z) uncompress $1 ;;
*.7z) 7z x $1 ;;
*) echo "don't know how to extract '$1'..." ;;
esac
else
echo "'$1' is not a valid file!"
fi
}

[Roxoff]

Here's mine at work

Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

U:\>alias
'alias' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

U:\>

You must all pity me.

My cygwin has this:

# alias
alias gvim='"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Vim/vim72/gvim.exe"'
alias less='/bin/less -r'
alias ls='/bin/ls -F --color=tty --show-control-chars'
alias vi='"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Vim/vim72/gvim.exe"'
alias vim='"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Vim/vim72/gvim.exe"'

[Freston]

You must all pity me.

Mine isn't much different I'm afraid.

Mine doesn't even know `ls`



Also part of my profile, with different machinenames having different machine colours, my main account gets a green prompt, the root account gets a red prompt, and all other accounts a yellow one.
Note also how I've never decided whether to use en-US or en-UK

################################################
# IMPORT COLORS (where available)
if [ -f /etc/colors ] ; then
        . /etc/colors
        MACHINECOLOR="$BROWN"
else
        NAMECOLOR="31m"
        MACHINECOLOR="36m"
fi


################################################
# Setting fancy prompts
if [ "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then
        NAMECOLOR="$RED"
elif [ $UID = "1000" ] ; then
        NAMECOLOR="$GREEN"
else
        NAMECOLOR="$YELLOW"
fi
PS1="\[\e[${NAMECOLOR}\]\l \u\[\e[${MACHINECOLOR}@\]\h:\w \$\[\e[$CEND\]"

They wont work unless you define colours:

# /etc/colors
# To get the escape character in Vim, in insert mode press
# [ctrl]+[V] 
ESC="^[["
CEND="${ESC}0;00m"
BLACK="${ESC}0;30m"
RED="${ESC}0;31m"
GREEN="${ESC}0;32m"
BROWN="${ESC}0;33m"
BLUE="${ESC}0;34m"
PURPLE="${ESC}0;35m"
CYAN="${ESC}0;36m"
GRAY="${ESC}0;37m"

LBLACK="${ESC}1;30m"
LRED="${ESC}1;31m"
LGREEN="${ESC}1;32m"
YELLOW="${ESC}1;33m"
LBLUE="${ESC}1;34m"
LPURPLE="${ESC}1;35m"
LCYAN="${ESC}1;36m"
WHITE="${ESC}1;37m"

It never occurred to me that you could get working functions in your profile, but indeed, why not? It's so easy. For example:

warp()
{
if      [ ! $1 ]
then
                echo    "Warp where?"
else
        case $1 in
                www)
                cd      /var/www/htdocs
                ;;
                rc)
                cd      /etc/rc.d
                ;;
                log)
                cd      /var/log
                ;;
                src)
                cd      ~/src
                ;;
        esac
        fi
}

[Lakshmipathi]

Cool,I never thought alias will be such a valuable stuff .thanks for this useful post!!! now i added my first custom alias-

alias yinstall ="yum -y install"

[darkrose0510]

alias maek='make'

Guess who makes regular typo's?

[Freston]

Cool,I never thought alias will be such a valuable stuff .thanks for this useful post!!!

Well, I had a feeling this could turn out useful. I always thought that I could do more with it but I could never really quite lay the finger on it...


But like Hazels cautious ' -i' flag on commands, that can be a lifesaver. Elija's canhaz had me rolling of my cough with tears in my eyes of laughing and reed9's... it never occurred to me you could define functions. That's so cool there's no limit to what you can break^H^H^H^H^Hdo with a function!

Guess who makes regular typo's?

Eh... To quote Louis XIV: "Le typo, c'est moi"