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What bash aliases can't you live without?

#bash #alias #discuss

Here's some of mine:

Change up 1, 2 or 3 directories:

alias .....='cd ../../../..' alias ....='cd ../../..' alias ...='cd ../..' alias ..='cd ..
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Example:

mcrowe in /tmp/level-1/level-2/level-3/level-4/level-5 $ .... mcrowe in /tmp/level-1/level-2 $
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Grep history:

alias gh='history | grep --colour=auto'
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Strip line numbers from history "history cut"

alias hc="history | cut -b 8-
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ps commands:

alias psa='ps faux' alias psag='ps faux | grep
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psa: shows detailed output:

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jan15 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< Jan15 0:00 \_ [rcu_gp] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< Jan15 0:00 \_ [rcu_par_gp]
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psag: Grep psa output:

$ psag nemo mcrowe 15096 0.0 1.8 1095252 454104 tty2 Sl+ Jan16 3:12 | \_ nemo mcrowe 26147 0.0 0.0 17532 868 pts/1 S+ 11:19 0:00 | | \_ grep --color --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=.git nemo mcrowe 2366 0.0 0.1 822992 42108 tty2 Sl+ Jan15 0:17 \_ nemo-desktop
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Clive Da •

all the above + my github aliases

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a nasty git alias hack

Clive Da ・ Jan 17 ・ 1 min read

#git #github #hack #bash