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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)"
}
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[–] questionAsker@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago
#Create predefined session with multiple tabs/panes (rss, bluetooth, docker...)
tmux-start 

#Create predefined tmux session with ncmpcpp and ueberzug cover
music 

#Comfort
ls = "ls --color=auto"
please = "sudo !!"

#Quick weather check
weatherH='curl -s "wttr.in/HomeCity?2QF"' 

#Download Youtube playlist videos in separate directory indexed by video order in playlist -> lectures, etc
ytPlaylist='yt-dlp -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"'

#Download whole album  -> podcasts primarily 
ytAlbum='yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --split-chapters --embed-thumbnail -o "chapter:%(section_title)s.%(ext)s"'

# download video -> extract audio -> show notification
ytm()
{
	tsp yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --no-playlist -P "~/Music/downloaded" $1 \
		--exec "dunstify -i folder-download -t 3000 -r 2598 -u normal  %(filepath)q"

}

# Provide list of optional packages which can be manually selected
pacmanOpts()
{
typeset -a os
for o in `expac -S '%o\n' $1`
do
  read -p "Install ${o}? " r
  [[ ${r,,} =~ ^y(|e|es)$ ]] && os+=( $o )
done

sudo pacman -S $1 ${os[@]}
}

# fkill - kill process
fkill() {
  pid=$(ps -ef | sed 1d | fzf -m --ansi --color fg:-1,bg:-1,hl:46,fg+:40,bg+:233,hl+:46 --color prompt:166,border:46 --height 40%  --border=sharp --prompt="➤  " --pointer="➤ " --marker="➤ " | awk '{print $2}')

  if [ "x$pid" != "x" ]
  then
    kill -${1:-9} $pid
  fi
}
[–] starman@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Technically not an alias, because I just use nushell's history + autocompletion everytime I use it, but one could alias it. I think I might even write a custom command for it, with path argument, some day. Anyway, here it goes:

rsync -aPh -e "ssh -p 2222" test@172.16.0.86:/storage/emulated/0/PicturesArchive/ ~/PicturesArchive/

I run an ssh daemon on my phone, and use this snippet to back up my photos.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Polls for potential zombie processes:

# Survive the apocalypse
function zombies () {
  ps -elf | grep tsc | awk '{print $2}' | while read pid; do
    lsof -p $pid | grep cwd | awk '{printf "%-20s ", $2; $1=""; print $9}'
  done
}

export -f zombies
alias zeds="watch -c -e -n 1 zombies"
[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

alias qr='qrencode -t ansiutf8'

This makes qr codes in the terminal.

needs the qrencode package

Example usage and output:

felix@buttsexmachine:~$ qr lemmy.fish
█████████████████████████████
█████████████████████████████
████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █▄ ██ █ ▄▄▄▄▄ ████
████ █   █ █ █▄▀▄█ █   █ ████
████ █▄▄▄█ █▄▄▄███ █▄▄▄█ ████
████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄▀ █▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄████
████▄▄▄ █▀▄▀▄▀ █▀▄▀▀   █ ████
████▄ ▀▄▀▄▄ ▀▄▄█ ▄▄▄█▀█ ▄████
██████▄███▄█▀█ ▄█▄ █▀█▀▄▄████
████ ▄▄▄▄▄ ██ ▀▀▀▀▄   ▀█▀████
████ █   █ █▀ ▀▄█▀▀▄▄  ▀█████
████ █▄▄▄█ █ ▀█ ▀█▀ █▄▄█▀████
████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄▄█▄▄▄███▄▄██████
█████████████████████████████
█████████████████████████████
```*___*
[–] tho@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
git() {
  if [ "$1" = clone ]; then
    shift
    set -- clone --recursive "$@"
  fi
  command git "$@"
}
[–] Archr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this just meant to make git clone always clone recursively?

Can't you do this with aliases in your .gitconfig?

[–] tho@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

yes it is. idk😄 i have a similar one for github-cli

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Currently using this to resize screenshots in a Word doc

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0

^+1:: { Send "{RButton}z{Tab 3}4{Enter}" }

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago
# Copy pwd into clipboard using pbcopy
alias cpwd="pwd | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy && echo 'pwd copied into clipboard'"
[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
# grep search the current directory
function lg() {
  ls -alt | grep $1
}
[–] oplkill@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Archr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I have something similar.

alias "..1=cd .."
alias "..2=cd ../.."
... etc

I did have code that would generate these automatically but Idk where it is.

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago
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, or git 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 a git-cd command because that wouldn't affect the current shell.

[–] Looboer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

alias gimme='git checkout'

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Twins(-ish)!

alias gimme="chown <myname>:staff"
[–] marzhall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

alias cls=clear

My first language was QB, so it makes me chuckle.

Also, alias cim=vim. If I had a penny...

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I also have cls aliased to clear! I used to use windows terminal and found myself compulsively typing cls when I moved to linux.

[–] owsei@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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"

all of my bash config is here

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

on most of my systems I get tired of constantly lsing after a cd 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.

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

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!

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I PAID MONEY FOR THIS KEYBOARD AND GOD DAMN I AM GOING TO TYPE ON IT

[–] Linsensuppe@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

real ones watch the train of shame

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

To save videos from certain streaming sites that are not supported by yt-dlp, I catch the M3U playlist used by the page and with that I use this script that gets ffmpeg to put together the pieces into a single file.

#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == "-h" ] || [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
	echo Download a video from a playlist into a single file
	echo usage: $(basename $0) PLAYLIST OUTPUT_VID
	exit
fi

nbparts=$(grep ^[^#] $1 | wc -l)

echo -e "\e[38;5;202m Downloading" $(( nbparts - 1 )) "parts \e[00m"
time ffmpeg -hide_banner -allowed_extensions ALL -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i $1 -codec copy $2
[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

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 ?

[–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i use

alias kimg='kitty +kitten icat' 

to display images in my terminal pretty simple but nice

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I have that one too, but my alias is called icat

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