A while ago I made a tiny function in my ~/.zshrc to download a video from the link in my clipboard. I use this nearly every day to share videos with people without forcing them to watch it on whatever site I found it. What’s a script/alias that you use a lot?
# Download clipboard to tmp with yt-dlp
tmpv() {
cd /tmp/ && yt-dlp "$(wl-paste)"
}
I don’t have anything too fancy. I use [theFuck(https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) to handle typos, and I have some variables set to common directories that I use.
# Copy pwd into clipboard using pbcopy alias cpwd="pwd | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy && echo 'pwd copied into clipboard'"
.# grep search the current directory function lg() ls -alt
alias cd…=“cd …”
alias gimme='git checkout'
git() { if [ "$1" = "cd" ]; then shift cd "./$(command git rev-parse --show-cdup)$*" else command git "$@" fi }
This lets you run
git cd
to go to the root of your repo, orgit cd foo/bar
to go to a path relative to that root. You can’t do it as an alias because it’s conditional, and you can’t do it as agit-cd
command because that wouldn’t affect the current shell.I made this one to find binaries in NixOs and other systems
get_bin_path() { paths=${2:-$PATH} for dr in $(echo $paths | tr ':' '\n') ; do if [ -f "$dr/$1" ] ; then echo "$dr/$1" return 0 fi done return 1 }
Then I made this one to, if I have a shell o opened inside neovim it will tell the neovim process running the shell to open a file on it, instead of starting a new process
_nvim_con() { abs_path=$(readlink --canonicalize "$@" | sed s'| |\\ |'g) $(get_bin_path nvim) --server $NVIM --remote-send "<ESC>:edit $abs_path<CR>" exit } # start host and open file _nvim_srv() { $(get_bin_path nvim) --listen $HOME/.cache/nvim/$$-server.pipe $@ } if [ -n "$NVIM" ] ; then export EDITOR="_nvim_con" else export EDITOR="_nvim_srv" fi
Lastly this bit: which if it detects a file and a line number split by a
:
it will open the file and jump to the line_open() { path_parts=$(readlink --canonicalize "$@" | sed s'| |\\ |'g | sed 's/:/\t/' ) file=$(echo "$path_parts" | awk ' { print $1 }' ) line=$(echo "$path_parts" | awk ' { print $2 }' ) if [ -n "$line" ] ; then # has line number if [ -n "$NVIM" ] ; then $(get_bin_path nvim) --server $NVIM --remote-send "<ESC>:edit $file<CR>:+$line<CR>" exit else $(get_bin_path nvim) --listen $HOME/.cache/nvim/$$-server.pipe $file "+:$line" fi else $EDITOR $file fi } alias nvim="_open"
alias sl=“ls“
real ones watch the train of shame
alias sl='ls | while IFS= read -r line; do while IFS= read -r -n1 char; do if [[ -z "$char" ]]; then printf "\n"; else printf "%s" "$char"; sleep 0.05; fi; done <<< "$line"; done'
I can’t easily check if it works until I get home to my laptop, but you get the idea
alias cls=clear
My first language was QB, so it makes me chuckle.
Also,
alias cim=vim
. If I had a penny…I also have cls aliased to clear! I used to use windows terminal and found myself compulsively typing cls when I moved to linux.
on most of my systems I get tired of constantly
ls
ing after acd
so I combine them:cd(){ cd $1 && ls }
(excuse if this doesn’t work, I am writing this from memory)
I also wrote a function to access docker commands quicker on my Truenas system. If passed nothing, it enters the docker jailmaker system, else it passes the command to docker running inside the system.
docker () { if [[ "$1" == "" ]]; then jlmkr shell docker return else sudo systemd-run --pipe --machine docker docker "$@" return fi }
I have a few similar shortcuts for programs inside jailmaker and long directories that I got sick of typing out.
alias nmtui="NEWT_COLORS='root=black,black;window=black,black;border=white,black;listbox=white,black;label=blue,black;checkbox=red,black;title=green,black;button=white,red;actsellistbox=white,red;actlistbox=white,gray;compactbutton=white,gray;actcheckbox=white,blue;entry=lightgray,black;textbox=blue,black' nmtui"
It’s
nmtui
but pretty!well i have a script. ive named it “shazam”. it either creates or attachs to a tmux session named after the base name of the dir (first arg or current working directory). i also have “fzf-shazam” as the same suggests itll open a fzf finder to choose a dir to “shazam”
alias scr=screen -dRU
I don’t know why Screen has any other flags. I do not want to bother learning the keyboard shortcuts for tmux even though its probably works better
alias ed=$EDITOR
Extremely convenient on a qwerty keyboard.
This should probably be a default nowadays. Does even a single person here use the real
ed
?Me. Along with vi depending on my mood.
None, I like to type
I PAID MONEY FOR THIS KEYBOARD AND GOD DAMN I AM GOING TO TYPE ON IT