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Share a script/alias you use a lot (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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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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[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I usually set up an alias or script to update everything on my system. For example, on Ubuntu, I would do this: alias sysup='snap refresh && apt update && apt upgrade'

And on Arch, I do this: alias sysup ='flatpak update && paru'

Funny enough you'd need to use sudo to run this on Ubuntu, but not in the Arch example because paru being neat

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

Here is mine for EndeavourOS (based on Arch, BTW):

alias update='eos-update --yay'
alias updates='eos-update --yay ;
  flatpak update ; 
  flatpak uninstall --unused ; 
  rustup self update ; 
  rustup update'

And related for uninstalling something:

alias uninstall='yay -Rs'
[–] GideonBear@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can I introduce you to Topgrade? ;)

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why install another bit of software when a simple alias will do the job nicely?

[–] GideonBear@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Because:

  1. If you install any new software that needs updating, you don't need to update your alias.
  2. If any software makes changes that break your alias, (theoretically) the bit of software should be able to fix it quickly, without you needing to pay any attention to it.
  3. The bit of software can more easily do advanced things than the simple alias. For example, I added functionality to update JetBrains Toolbox and IDE's installed with it. A simple alias could not do this, because Toolbox does not have a simple update command, however I made it work by enabling automatic updates temporarily, and then inspecting the log for updates. Now the end-user doesn't have to think about this at all. Other things that could be done but are not implemented yet include parallelization, and listing updated components in a neat summary (PR linked).

Of course if you're a minimalist, then you probably don't have that much stuff that needs upgrading in the first place. For me personally I have deb-get, uv, cargo, and flatpak, to name a few; the alias was getting longer and longer until I was able to remove it completely by switching to Topgrade.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me, I find it handy because it catches a bunch of stuff I always forget, like updating Docker containers. Also if you have Am installed it'll even update your Appimages.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

I consider updating my docker containers part of updating my dev environment, which is on a different schedule to my system updates. I use a function for updating them.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I use Topgrade, but I use the alias update to run it lol