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I have a folder full of scripts tied to aliases that fix various things when they go wonky, and I've long since forgotten what any of them do. I just know if
xxx
app stops working, I typefix_xxx
into the terminal and then it does a bunch of stuff and then it works again lol.Also I have a bunch of aliases tied to common tasks, like
e1
= reboot,e2
= shutdown etc. I have no idea where that habit came from.Edit: ALSO, just the general mish-mash of apps. I won't have anything to do with Snaps, but the rest of it is an unholy combination of native apps, things from the AUR, flatpaks, Appimages, Docker containers and wine setups, mostly (but not all) in Bottles.
I dare you to try
grep -Irn alias
in your home dir.I'm not even sure what that would do! Presumably list every time the word alias appears in every file across the whole home directory or something like that?
Rtfm!
No, seriously, -I avoids binaries, -r recursively, -n print matching file and line number.
Alright, I'm gonna try it and see how long this takes!
edit: about 8 minutes. Not as spectacular as I'd hoped lol
If you have games there, yeah. Ripgrep is way faster. But grep is good enough in most cases.
Btw, did you find your aliases?
I did! I know where they are and which scripts they point to, but as for going into the scripts and trying to remember what they're actually doing... I'll get to it some day lol
now im really curious about that
xxx
app...