What are your CLI go to commands and aliases?

I realized that I have a bunch of CLI go to commands and aliases that speed up my productivity and was wondering what others use.

A few of my favs:

• history | grep 'something' - for finding a command I ran in the past
• zz - opens up ~/.zshrc for editing
• wpd - uses my local PHP version to run WP CLI so I can use XDEBUG on the CLI

What are your aliases and CLI goto productivity commands?

Comments

[Can Nuhlar]

#shows line numbers in nano
alias nano='nano --const --linenumbers'

#pump up brightness for cs:go :P
gamma(){
xrandr --output HDMI-1-1 --gamma "$1":"$1":"$1"
}

#very useful for hex, binary to decimal conversions
py(){
python -c "print $1"
}

#for looping isos
mountiso(){
sudo mount -o loop "$1" /mnt/iso
}

#got this extract function somewhere but can't remember where, it comes very handy
function extract() {
     if [ -f "$1" ] ; then
         case "$1" in
             *.tar.bz2)   tar xvjf "$1"                    ;;
             *.tar.gz)    tar xvzf "$1"                    ;;
             *.bz2)       bunzip2 "$1"                     ;;
             *.rar)       unrar x "$1"                     ;;
             *.gz)        gunzip "$1"                      ;;
             *.tar)       tar xvf "$1"                     ;;
             *.tbz2)      tar xvjf "$1"                    ;;
             *.tgz)       tar xvzf "$1"                    ;;
             *.zip)       unzip "$1"                       ;;
             *.ZIP)       unzip "$1"                       ;;
             *.pax)       cat "$1" | pax -r                ;;
             *.pax.Z)     uncompress "$1" —stdout | pax -r ;;
             *.Z)         uncompress "$1"                  ;;
             *.7z)        7z x -mmt8 "$1"                        ;;
             *)           echo "don't know how to extract '$1'..." ;;
         esac
     else
         echo "extract: error: $1 is not valid"
     fi
}

#my favorite
alias upt='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt clean'

[Ian Kirker]

I write a fair amount of script-y tooling, so this one saves me a lot of keystrokes:

function vp () {
   vim "$(which "$1")"
}

[Ken Bellows]

Some of my .bashrc aliases:

# easily grep through ps output
alias psgrep="ps aux | grep -v grep | grep"

# git shorthands
alias ga="git add"
alias gA="git add -A"
alias gc="git commit -m"
alias gca="git commit -am"
alias gs="git status"
alias gd="git diff"
alias glog='git log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h %C(cyan)%<(24)%ad %Cgreen%an%C(auto)%d%Creset: %s" --date=local'
alias gl="glog -10"

# ls shorthands
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
alias l="ls"
alias ll="ls -l"
alias la="ls -a"
alias lA="ls -A"
alias lla="ls -la"
alias llA="ls -lA"

The git shorthands above are actually kind of a lie; I actually have a (probably unnecessarily) complicated couple of bash functions, supported by a python script that parses git status output and assigns a number to each changed file, to allow easier shorthands. gs shows git status with the numbers inline before each file, then ga and gd will accept those numbers as arguments, so I can do ga 3 to stage the 3rd modified file for commit or gd 3 to show the diff for that file. Maybe I'll write a post about those functions at some point so someone can show me how to improve them...

[Molly Struve (she/her)]

At the beginning of the year I broke my arm and was forced to type one handed for 3 weeks. It was ROUGH but because of it I now have a list of super simple 2 letter aliases which I still use :D

 alias rs="git reset --soft HEAD^"
 alias pp="git pull origin master"
 alias mm="git checkout master"
 alias ss="git status"
 alias aa="git add ."
 alias gc="git checkout ."
 alias gcb="git checkout -b"
 alias gp="git push origin HEAD"
 alias gf="git fetch origin"
 alias gr="git rebase origin/master"

[Florian Reuschel]

I'm using macOS, not sure if things work in other UNIX environments (esp. pbcopy/pbpaste are macOS-specific), and some commands require external tools like Node.js or PHP to be installed.

# The prime one, can't live without it:
# Create a directory and cd to it immediately
mcd () { mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1" }

# Copy the absolute path of the current working directory to the clipboard
# without trailing newline (e.g. to paste into quotes of a string)
here () { pwd | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy }

# Show all git tags of the current repository that represent
# valid SemVer versions
semver () { npx semver $(git tag) }

# lazygit is a great tool for quick git commits, check it out:
# https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
alias lg="lazygit"

# Recursively search the current directory for PHP files
# and lint them for syntax errors
php-lint () { find . -iname "*.php" -exec php -l {} \; | grep -i "Errors.parsing" }

# Get the gzipped size (in bytes) of text in the clipboard
# (useful when writing JavaScript libraries)
gzipped () { pbpaste | gzip -c | wc -c  | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' }

[Ondrej]

function rm --description 'alias rm rm -rf'
command rm -rf $argv;
end

Wouldn't recommend it to anyone though.

[ComputerSmiths]

I use ‘lan’
ifconfig | grep ‘inet ‘
To get my ip address
ip a | grep ‘inet ‘
On latest debian releases

[Jean Michel Functional Programming]

alias d='docker'
alias ap='ansible-playbook'
alias g='git'

[Thomas Landin]

I don't use many aliases, but I have replaced ls with exa. It's got saner defaults and great options for neat behaviour like grouping directories first, changing sorting mode, and respecting .gitignore and showing git status in long-form mode.

[Vignesh D]

alias c=clear
alias b=cd..
alias zshrc='vim. zshrc && source ~/. zshrc'

alias ypx='yarn run'

[Christopher Kruse]

FYI, you can use Ctrl+L in most shells to handle screen clearing, and would allow you to free up 'c' for another action. Also doesn't require an enter key press!