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

[–] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 ?

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[–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i use

alias kimg='kitty +kitten icat' 

to display images in my terminal pretty simple but nice

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a collection of about 8 machines around the house (a lot of Raspberry Pi) that I ssh around to from various points.

I have setup scripts named: ssp1 ssp2 ssba ss2p etc. to ssh into the various machines, and of course shared public ssh keys among them to skip the password prompt. So, yes, once you are "in" one machine in my network, if you know this, you are "in" all of them, but... it's bloody convenient.

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[–] KR1Z2k@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

For docker: I’m not following best practices. I have a giant docker compose file for my entire home lab, this is how I update things:

alias dockpull="docker compose pull"
alias dockup="docker compose up -d --remove-orphans"
[–] data1701d@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I use Clevis to auto-unlock my encrypted root partition with my TPM; this means when my boot partition is updated (E.G a kernel update), I have to update the PCR register values in my TPM. I do it with my little script /usr/bin/update_pcr:

#!/bin/bash
clevis luks regen -d /dev/nvme1n1p3 -s 1 tpm2

I run it with sudo and this handles it for me. The only issue is I can't regenerate the binding immediately after the update; I have to reboot, manually enter my password to decrypt the drive, and then do it.

Now, if I were really fancy and could get it to correctly update the TPM binding immediately after the update, I would have something like an apt package shim with a hook that does it seamlessly. Honestly, I'm surprised that distributions haven't developed robust support for this; the technology is clearly available (I'm using it), but no one seems to have made a user-friendly way for the common user to have TPM encryption in the installer.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

On MacOS, to open the current directory in Finder: alias f='open -a Finder .'

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To answer your question realistically I did history | sed "s/.* //" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

which returned as first non standard command lr which from my grep lr ~/.bashrc is alias lr="ls -lrth"

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A few days ago I posted a one-liner to do the same thing too. It will resolve aliases from your history and expand program paths to its fullpath. I thought you might be interested: https://beehaw.org/post/20584479

type -P $(awk '{print $1}' ~/.bash_history | sort -u) | sort
[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for sharing, always nice to learn alternative ways to do so!

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hey OP, consider using $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR instead of /tmp. It's now the more proper place for these kinds of things to avoid permission issues, although I'm sure you're on a single user system like most people. I have clipboard actions set to download with yt-dlp :)

My favorite aliases are:

alias dff='findmnt -D -t nosquashfs,notmpfs,nodevtmpfs,nofuse.portal,nocifs,nofuse.kio-fuse'

alias lt='ls -t | less'

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[–] XXIC3CXSTL3Z@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Ooooou I got a couple :3

This one is just a basic mirror fixing thing cuz sometimes I go a while without updating pacman:

alias fixpkg='rate-mirrors --protocol https arch | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && sudo pacman -Syy'

This function I made to create virtual audio sinks so I can route audios via qpw and play earrape into discord calls if I want XD

create_vsink() {
    local sink_name=${1:-vsink}  # Default sink name is 'vsink' if no input is provided
    local description=${2:-"Virtual Sink"}  # Default description
    pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name="$sink_name" sink_properties=device.des>
    echo "Virtual sink '$sink_name' created with description '$description'."
}

Simple parser function I made that makes a whole repo using my git key so it's not just locally created I kinda forgot why I made it tbh:

git_clone() {
    local url="${1#https://}"  # Remove "https://" if present
    git clone "https://$git_key@$url"
}

Awesome mpv function I made that allows for real time pitch+speed shifting via hotkeys and is flexible with extra parameters and shit:

mpv_pitch() {
    if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
        echo "Usage: mpv_pitch <file> [mpv-options]"
        return 1
    fi
    local file="$1"
    shift
    mpv --input-conf=/dev/stdin "$file" "$@" <<EOF
SHIFT+RIGHT add audio-pitch-correction 0; add pitch 0.01; add speed 0.01  # Decrease pit>
SHIFT+LEFT add audio-pitch-correction 0; add pitch -0.01; add speed -0.01 # Increase pit>
EOF
}

Automatic audio router for firefox audio streams that uses the aforementioned create_sink function to make a specific sink that I can use carla on to mix and make cool shit out of haha

firefox_crush() {
    create_vsink CrunchSink "CrunchSink" 
    firefox --name firefox-vc &

    (while true; do
        SINK_INPUT_ID=$(pactl list sink-inputs short | grep "firefox" | awk '{print $1}')
        if [[ -n "$SINK_INPUT_ID" ]]; then
            pactl move-sink-input "$SINK_INPUT_ID" CrunchSink
            break
        fi
        sleep 0.25
    done) &
}
[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

Here is on that I actually don't use, but want to use it in scripts. It is meant to be used by piping it. It's simple branch with user interaction. I don't even know if there is a standard program doing exactly that already.

# usage: yesno [prompt]
# example:
#   yesno && echo yes
#   yesno Continue? && echo yes || echo no
yesno() {
    local prompt
    local answer
    if [[ "${#}" -gt 0 ]]; then
        prompt="${*} "
    fi
    read -rp "${prompt}[y/n]: " answer
    case "${answer}" in
    [Yy0]*) return 0 ;;
    [Nn1]*) return 1 ;;
    *) return 2 ;;
    esac
}
[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago
# Copy pwd into clipboard using pbcopy
alias cpwd="pwd | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy && echo 'pwd copied into clipboard'"
[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 1 month 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

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month 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!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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"
[–] marzhall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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 month 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.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

My desktop text editor has an autosave feature, but it only works after you've manually saved the file. All I wanted is something like the notes app on my phone, where I can jot down random thoughts without worrying about naming a new file. So here's the script behind my text editor shortcut, which creates a new text file in ~/.drafts, names it with the current date, adds a suffix if the file already exists, and finally opens the editor:

#!/bin/bash

name=/home/defacto/.drafts/"`date +"%Y%m%d"`"_text
if [[ -e "$name" || -L "$name" ]] ; then
    i=1
    while [[ -e "$name"_$i || -L "$name"_$i ]] ; do
        let i++
    done
    name="$name"_$i
fi
touch -- "$name"
pluma "$name" #replace pluma with your editor of choice
[–] Ritsu4Life@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have started my daily drawing journey which i still am bad at it. To create a new .kra files files every day I use this

#/usr/bin/bash

days=$(</var/home/monika/scripts/days)
echo "$days"

file_name=/var/home/monika/Pictures/Art/day$days.kra

if [ -f $file_name ]; then
  echo file is present
else
  if [[ $days%7 -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "Week completed"
  fi
  cp "/var/home/monika/scripts/duplicate.kra" $file_name
  flatpak run org.kde.krita $file_name
  echo $(($days + 1)) >/var/home/monika/scripts/days
fi

[–] XXIC3CXSTL3Z@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've stolen a bunch of Git aliases from somewhere (I don't remember where), here are the ones I ended up using the most:

g=git
ga='git add'
gau='git add --update'
gcfu='git commit --fixup'
gc='git commit --verbose'
'gc!'='git commit --verbose --amend'
gcmsg='git commit --message'
gca='git com
gd='git diff'
gf='git fetch'
gl='git pull'
gst='git status'
gstall='git stash --all'
gstaa='git stash apply'
gp='git push'
'gpf!'='git push --force-with-lease'
grb='git rebase'
grba='git rebase --abort'
grbc='git rebase --continue'

I also often use

ls='eza'
md='mkdir -p'
mcd() { mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1" }

And finally some Nix things:

b='nix build'
bf='nix build -f'
bb=nix build -f .'
s='nix shell'
sf='nix shell -f'
snp='nix shell np#'
d='nix develop'
df='nix develop -f'
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