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Camilo Martinez
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Useful Alias for ZSH

#productivity #zsh #tutorial #terminal

When I start working all the machines in my office use Windows. That's the moment when I start missing the alias ability that I learned at the university where I used to have Linux on my laptop.

Happily now, ZSH (or bash) can be used on Linux, macOS, and Windows (with WSL).

In addition to all the aliases that can be activated with ZSH plugins, I've defined a lot more that I miss. Hope can also be useful for you.

Terminal 

 alias c="clear" alias x="exit" alias e="code -n ~/ ~/.zshrc ~/.aliases ~/.colors ~/.hooks" alias r="source ~/.zshrc"
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History 

 alias h="history -10" # last 10 history commands alias hc="history -c" # clear history alias hg="history | grep " # +command
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history-grep

You can reuse the command with !# (! + history number) to reuse the same command. According to previous image, if you use !46 it will recover the npm -v command.

Alias 

 alias ag="alias | grep " # +command
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alias-grep

Utils 

 # https://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix # sudo apt install cmatrix / brew install cmatrix alias m="cmatrix -abs" # https://htop.dev/ # sudo apt install htop / brew install htop alias t="htop" # https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu # sudo apt install ncdu / brew install ncdu alias d="ncdu --exclude /mnt --color dark" # +path # https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli alias st="speedtest" # https://github.com/sindresorhus/clipboard-cli # npm install -g clipboard-cli alias cb="clipboard"
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Git 

 alias gcg="git config --edit --global" alias gcl="git config --edit --local"
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⚠ Use next alias with extra caution, you may lose all your changes. 

 alias guc="git reset --hard HEAD" # undo changes and preserve untracked files alias gcc="git clean -f -d -x" # clean ALL changes and remove untracked files
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Or use a command validation to confirm dangerous actions.

equiman

Command validations with ZSH

Camilo Martinez ・ Mar 8 '21

#productivity #zsh #tutorial #terminal

I'm not setting up the global user and mail on git because I work on different projects. So I have an alias with the most used user.

 alias gcu="git config user.name \"equiman\" && git config user.email \"equiman@users.noreply.github.com\""
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equiman

ZSH cheatsheet for git plugin

Camilo Martinez ・ Apr 20 '21

#productivity #zsh #git #terminal

Empty commit, very useful to re-run CI/CD

 alias gcae="git commit --allow-empty -m " # <message>
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npm 

 alias rnm="rm -rf node_modules" alias rbn="rm -rf build node_modules" alias rap="rm -rf build coverage node_modules package-lock.json && npm i" alias cap="clean && rap" alias npk="npx npkill" #clean unused node_modules alias nkp="npx kill-port " # +portnumber alias nfk="npx fkill-cli" # +[<pid|name|:port> …] #kill processes alias nlg="npm list -g --depth 0" #list global packages installed alias ni="npm i" alias nis="npm i -S " # +package@version alias nise="npm i -S -E " # +package@version alias nid="npm i -D " # +package@version alias nide="npm i -D -E " # +package@version alias nr="npm r " # +package@version alias nrb="npm run build" alias nrbd="npm run build:dev" alias nrbq="npm run build:qa" alias nrs="npm run start" alias nrsd="npm run start:dev" alias nrsq="npm run start:qa" alias nrt="npm run test" alias nrtc="npm run test:c" #test with coverage alias np="npm run build && npm publish" alias nu="npm unpublish " # +package@version
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VSCode 

 alias vc="code" alias vco="code ." alias vcp="vsce package"
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Volta (NVM replacement) 

 alias vil="volta install node@lts" alias vpl="volta pin node@16.17.1 && volta pin npm@8.15.0" alias vi18="volta install node@18" alias vp18="volta pin node@18.10.0 && volta pin npm@8.19.2" alias vla="volta list all" alias vln="volta list node" alias vlc="volta list node --current --format plain" alias vld="volta list node --default --format plain" alias vlp="volta list npm" alias vcv="node -v && npm -v"
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Image Optimizer 

 alias iow="npx @squoosh/cli --webp auto " # +file-name alias ioa="npx @squoosh/cli --avif auto " # +file-name alias iop="npx @squoosh/cli --oxipng auto " # +file-name
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You can download or clone this code and other ZSH utilities from GitHub: dot Files repository.

That’s All Folks!
Happy Coding 🖖

ko-fi

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DasGinger •

Cheers! Thanks for the quick aliases.