Discussion on: What are your preferred bash aliases?

[Viktor Sokolov]

One of my favorite aliases is to get a quick answer from StackOverflow
using howdoi package

sudo apt-get install howdoi
alias how="howdoi $* -c"

The cross-platform solution to open current directory form terminal

if [ ! $(uname -s) = 'Darwin' ]; then
    if grep -q Microsoft /proc/version; then
        # Ubuntu on Windows using the Linux subsystem
        alias open='explorer.exe';
    else
        alias open='xdg-open';
    fi
fi

more of my settings can be found here: github.com/victory-sokolov/dotfiles

[Joe]

If you like howdoi, check out tldr. It works like man, but only shows usage examples. It's in the regular Ubuntu repos.

[Nočnica Mellifera]

Definitely going to use this.