Alias's rule

Get thefuck out, and move on.

That's unmaintained pay-respects is a maintained replacement.
- https://github.com/iffse/pay-respects
  https://codeberg.org/iff/pay-respects
Seems like something I'd make around the 4th no sleep day. Nice.
- The amount of times I've spent 3-4 days to write a script that will save me a total of maybe 2hours of my time over a lifetime of use.
A core memory
I forgot this existed
TheFuck is wrong with me
fsck
This is so funny and useful
I used this for years to git push new branches to origin until I figured out the new setting that does it automatically
- Yes, but it's funnier that way
- "the this"
Thanks. Leaving a comment to remind me to install this.
- Same. This is both useful and hilarious.
  tldr is another good tool if you're just learning cli tools.

This is in my ~/.aliasrc :)

Just install the train app
- Nah, I've had this in here for +15 years now 😃
- Also gti for your git fails
alias nano='fail; vim'
- alias emacs='fail; vim'

Precise typing? Do you mean hitting tab?

Tabbing? I just copy and paste my commands from ~~stack overflow~~ AI garbage now.

But how would you run sl, the steam locomotive?

I know you're joking but:
\sl or command sl.
I'd say "check your shell documentation" but they're both almost impossible to search for. They both work in Bash. Both skip aliases and shell functions and go straight to shell builtins or things in the $PATH.
There's also /usr/bin/sl but you knew that.
- There's also /usr/bin/sl but you knew that.
  
  $ ls /usr/bin env
  I guess I could env sl?

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

That's really good! 🤣

    
sudo apt install sl

Thank me later

I remember people groaning in the CS lab in college when they realized they hadn't locked their machine before walking away for just long enough to let someone install sl.
- I am a menace around unlocked computers. Was at a job and found a colleague who left his computer unlocked and had customer information open in a co working space on his screen. Set his computer language to hebrew before locking it.
  Another time in college I found an unlocked computer in a library. Set their profile picture to Chris Chan with an overlay image saying "#ThisIsMyAuthenticSelf #Unafraid". On this system, the user was not likely to see their own picture, but other people they contact will.
- They left a root session open? Then they really deserved it.
  Oh, maybe it was just the sl binary downloaded somewhere.
- Logging in on the high school computers there was a way through some folder tree into the wallpapers of all the teacher accounts. Boy did we have fun with that, they never found out who did it though
Make sure to add “Defaults insults” to /etc/sudo while you’re at it.
I'm officially done with Google, I think. Search results for 'sl' were nothing useful. But the AI response takes the cake.
"SL" can refer to several things, but in the context of Ida-Viru County, it most likely refers to Stockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), the public transportation system in the Stockholm area.
I don't live in that county, not even close tbh. And even if I did, how would the public transit system in another country, across a sea, be all that relevant to me?
- I now used an actual search engine to find this article and will install it, except I don't think I'll see it all that much because I don't think I've ever misspelled 'ls' as 'sl' :(

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

    
alias ll='ls -l'

ls on smol screen, ls -lah on big screen.

    
alias cp='rm -rf'

Some people want to watch the world burn.
In order to improve your accuracy might I suggest:

alias i='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' alias s='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' alias sl='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' alias ll='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' ...
Etcetera. It will make sure you are punished for typos
- Make sure to do
  
  alias i='echo <password> | sudo -S rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
  For maximum damage, even when you're not root!
- There's this classic: Suicide Linux
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6] = 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "Click"

I, for one, really love HTTP over

    
apache2.conf
conf-available/
conf-enabled/
mods-available/
mods-enabled/
sites-available/
sites-enabled/
envvars
magic
ports.conf
sites-available/
sites-enabled/

You can pry my Steam Locomotive from my cold dead hands!

My preferred alias is

    
alias l='ls -latrF'

It's the command line version of setting your file browser to list files with details instead of showing a grid of icons.

Edit: I did install sl thanks to some of the other comments. Beautiful!

I alias rm to rm -r for easy folder deleting

UGH that shit.
rm deletes a file. It can't delete a directory, you have to use
rmdir to delete a directory...as long as there's nothing in that directory. If there's anything in the directory, you have to know to use
rm -r to delete a directory and its contents, and no
rmdir -r isn't right somehow!
- I don't think there's any reason to use rmdir unless you write (Ba)sh scripts, and you want to make sure that the directory is indeed empty. Just use rm -r.
  Also note that you can use rmdir -p this/is/some/path to remove all nested directories including the parent (this here). But this will only work if there's exactly one directory per parent directory, and the last directory doesn't have any files (including directories). This might be helpful for some scripts.
  rmdir -r isn't a thing, because that would invalidate the reason this command exists.
- Reminds me of a little annoyance I have with cat and ls. Yeah they technically do different things, one is for files and one is for directories. But so often I just find myself wishing I could use one command for both. Like making cat directory act as ls. Maybe I'm the only one who feels that way.
- On Linux, rm can delete empty directories with -d too, not just with -r.
  rmdir is the counterpart to mkdir, which creates empty directories, so of course it can only remove empty directories. After all mkdir can’t create full directories either. There however is rmdir -p as a counterpart to mkdir -p, so if there is something in the directory, you can use that, as long as the something is an empty directory.
Would "Danger" happen to be your middle name by any chance?
- It is not like he put the f on it :)
That works, unless you mistype the file name, and delete some unrelated directory by mistake.

I just realized that this is somebody’s actual alias list and not just a joke.

Not as long as OP's, but I've had alias cim=vim for a minute. Brain just don't do it

Should have left ‘sl’ for the train!

The classic:
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/sl

alias apt='reboot'

Mint comes with dir aliased for ls, and the only other one I regularly use is cls for clear.

Yes I grew up on DOS, how can you tell?

Powershell does the opposite, having an alias from ls to whatever the powershell equivalent of dir is.
- It gets better. PowerShell 5, which is still the default installation on Windows 11, aliases curl and wget to Invoke-WebRequest. The fucked-up part is that Win11 includes the real curl too, but the alias shadows it, and you have to use curl.exe. The even more fucked-up part is that Invoke-WebRequest still uses Internet Explorer to parse the result, and will panic if -UseBasicParsing is not passed every time, or IE isn't installed and initialized.
  I used to develop applications in PowerShell. I still wear the mental scars.
- And curl, and several others
I got used to all the other Linux commands, but I had to make an alias for md=mkdir. Why that already isn't a thing is beyond me.
- I have a simple way of getting around that - I only make directories in the GUI.
People type clear instead of CTRL+L?
I've never had a terminal that that didn't work in. Or at the very least have a shortcut be able to be set for.
- CTRL+L and clear command do two different things (at least when using Bash on Debian):
  CTRL+L scrolls the terminal output one screen so you don't see your previous output, unless you scroll up;
  clear does indeed clear terminal output completely, and your previous command history is available only through the history command.
  If you want CTRL+L to clear your screen completely you can add following to the .bashrc (or other file that is sourced when starting Bash, e.g. .bash_bindings):
  bind -x '"\C-l":clear'
  Note that it might not work if you use Vi mode inside Bash, but who does that.
- I often use clear when I need to rerun the same command and want to see the output in isolation each time, so I might run clear && ./build.sh and then just press the up arrow and run it again.
  But I think, many people are also just not aware of the keyboard shortcut or don't care to remember it, since they don't use it often and clear is easy enough to guess.

I recently switched to a mechanical keyboard (with linear switches), and it took me a while to stop mistyping every command

Or give a fuck: https://dev.to/nialljoemaher/the-f-ck-a-really-helpful-command-line-tool-3k64

    
alias arch-update='sudo pacman -Syu && Yay -Syu && flatpak update && sudo freshclam'

Isn't pacman -Syu redundant if you run yay -Syu afterwards? Also, just yay is the same as yay -Syu
- In an alias like this, running pacman first has the advantage that the true Arch packages install completely before any AUR packages that require slow downloads, package compression, or long build steps.
- Yes but who cares, it works and that is all that matter.
  If you would see my dotfiles, you would see a lot of unnecessary shit, because I don't write them to be perfect, I write something when I realize this would be nice in the moment, and I just do it as I know how to and just leave it, as long as it works.
- Probably. I'll give your way a try. I never really thought about it much after writing it. Thanks!
- It can be, but sometimes packages are removed from the official repos, but still available in AUR, only running yay -Syu will install the AUR versions of dependencies that are no longer needed, and can leave you with a bunch of unnecessary packages from AUR.
  If you run pacman -Syu on its own the unnecessary dependencies will be removed and you won't get the AUR versions, and then yay -Syu will only update things you actually want from AUR.

I should add an alias for 'snyc'

I've done similar before and was still blown away by the bad data.

Somewhat unrelated, but still a hell of a story in the power of human input into data...

Working in the healthcare industry during COVID, federal law had 18,000 of our employees required to submit proof of vaccination to continue working in our hospitals and clinics. All they had to do was get their vaccination certificate PDF off the government website, type in their staff number, and upload the form, we then submit this information as the employer to confirm that these people do indeed work for us and are safe to continue doing so.

56% managed to do it. The rest were all sorts of shit. Most common were people that took photos of their computer screen, converted the photo to PDF, and uploaded that. Next most common was people print the PDF, scan it, then upload the scan PDF.

We had thought of everything to make a simple download then upload as easy as possible, including a 3 step video, and yet they went above and beyond in unimaginable ways. The people that genuinely didn't know what to do hit the support link so they could be guided through it and did things perfectly in a couple mins—the self-confessed computer illiterate people were not a problem at all.

Thanks to training a form detection bot, I got it down to under 2000 remaining in a day, and the looming threat of "You have to do this or we can't legally give you work and pay you until you do" quickly sorted out the rest.

People will ALWAYS fuck things up in ways you've never thought of before. Reading the short, clear, and user friendly instructions for the simple job doesn't work and they'll get angry that something went wrong, every fucking time.

It's basically the "There is only a single state in which a knot is untied. There are infinite ways in which a knot can be tied."
- Well, ackshually...
  Eh, I can't be bothered looking it up, but knot theory in mathematics, we're at like 56M combinations or some insane number possibly many millions above or below that.
  It's a weirdly interesting area of mathematics lol

alias cd.. "cd .."

Windows programmer detected!
(I was guilty of this so much)

dc is docker compose on my servers and yes, I often mistype dc/cd

dc is short for desk calculator
- Actual bot or meme I do not understand
Same, it's a very handy alias

alias gti=git

https://r-wos.org/hacks/gti

No alias for suro or ks?

alias dir='ls'

doesn't dir aready do the same as ls?
- dir /w perhaps

What do you have against desktop calculator? I used to do some code golfing with it even

Poor dc, no one ever uses it on purpose it seems D=

My favorite was "quti" actually quitting Quake 3.

On the off chance someone here is an R user, there's the fcuk package: https://thinkr-open.github.io/fcuk/articles/fcuk.html

The most useful for me is probably ~~"ln = ls -n"~~

It's supposed to be "lsn = ls -n".

I originally had

alias ll="ls -la"
Now it is

alias ll="eza --all --long --header --group --time-style=long-iso --git --icons --group-directories-first"
What if you need to create a link?
- I mistyped. I have it set as lsn.
Ehm ... https://linux.die.net/man/1/ln
- In true accordance to the post. I mistyped. I have it set as lsn.

alias pqsl='psql'

Actual reality:

ctrl-c ctrl-v

Actual reality:
control+shift+c control+shift+v

me when I'm summoning a snake in my terminal

I have all variations of quit and exit in CS2 aliased.

Alias's

Aliases

rule

Wtf.

Me an intellectual: just have and alias for lx which points to eza.

I don't relate personally

I only have one alias: alias rm=trash-rm

EDIT: Sorry. It's actually alias rm=trash

Should that not be alias rm=trash-put ?
My distro tells me that trash-rm comes from the package trash-cli and the README of that says that trash-rm removes files from the trashcan.
- Yeah I was mistaken. It's actually alias rm=trash (not trash-put either)
@KindaABigDyl @thebrain what is trash-rm?
- Should be just trash not trash-rm, but it's like the other person said, when you go to rm, it moves it to trash now, instead of deleting, since usually I don't want to truly delete things (i.e., I don't raw delete when using a GUI, so I'm bringing that behavior to CLI as well)
  You can ofc still use the old rm and do full deletion. Either sudo rm (unless root also has rm aliased) or /bin/rm
  But also you can do rm then trash-empty for the same behavior.
  I'm actually trying a new alias alias del=/bin/rm so that I have a quick way to get the old behavior.
- trash-rm moves files to the trash bin, as opposed to the usual rm which instantly deletes them.

What's wrong? This is based for every sys-admin getting an emergency call at Friday night when drinks was half price.