[ale] Favorite Aliases?

[Scott Plante]

I've always used psg too. Also md for mkdir but that's pretty boring. 


Actually, taking a peek at my .bashrc, it looks like a while back I switched psg from an alias to a function: 



psg () 
{ 
ps -ef | egrep ^UID\|\[${1:0:1}\]${1:1} 
} 


This version gives me the header line and avoids the grep in the output. 


Since more often than not I seem to want to cd to the directory I just made, I also use: 


mdcd() 
{ 
mkdir "$@" 
cd "$_" 
} 



I think it was ksh that had a -c option on type that read though the symbolic links to tell you where the real file was. The c was for canonical I believe. Anyway bash doesn't have that option so I've been using this one for many years too, ever since I switched to bash: 



type() 
{ 
if [ "$1" = "-c" ] 
then 
shift; 
for f in "$@" 
do 
ff=$(builtin type -p "$f") 
readlink -f "$ff" 
done 
else 
builtin type $typeopts "$@" 
fi 
} 


I know you asked for aliases, but most of mine grew into functions it seems. I do also alias vi to vim and more to less, but mostly because I couldn't get out of old habits. 


Also this one is handy to replace scp for a large file : 
alias rscp='rsync --partial --progress --stats --inplace' 


This one is handy if you're having trouble connecting with ssh: 

alias sshv='ssh -vvv -o LogLevel=DEBUG3' 


Scott 


----- Original Message -----

From: "JD" <jdp at algoloma.com> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 10:40:56 AM 
Subject: [ale] Favorite Aliases? 

It has been awfully quiet here. 

What are your 3 favorite aliases? 

Let's skip the ls/du/df ones, ok? 

# ps with a grep 
alias psg='ps -eaf | grep $*' 



Oh and for programs that I constantly misspell, I'll create multiple aliases 
with the misspellings just to save time. 


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