Linux

alias more="less -cX"
alias moer=more
alias meor=more
alias meor=more
alias mroe=more
alias More=more

alias grpe=grep
alias gerp=grep
alias gpre=grep

A humble and simple "c" for "clear" in the terminal.

Certain aliases related to docker compose, just because it saves 2-3 words which never change.

There's not enough storage space on the Internet to list all my aliases.

Oh boy, my time to shine:

• mkd - Create directory and immediately cd into it
• dei - docker exec -i
• dps - docker ps
• mdocker - Switch to minikube's docker context
• n - nvim
• n. - nvim .

Node package managers

Exampes use pnpm but I have them for yarn, npm, and bun too

• pi - pnpm install
• pd - pnpm run dev

fzf stuff

• sdh - Search home directory (directories, recursive)

Meme

• fuckyou - git push --force
• nano - nvim

Misc

createpgdb - Create a postgres db on the given container with the given name

Usage: createpgdb "postgres container" "db name"

I have similar ones for dropdb and pg_dump. Here's the command:

f() { local __user; if [ -z $3 ]; then __user=postgres; else __user=$3; fi; docker exec -i $1 createdb -U $__user $2; unset -f f; }; f'

Don't overlook functions, they're more versatile.

hgrep

history | grep

Because I can never remember what parameters to use for things so my history is a quick reference.

alias ll = 'ls -l'

alias kk = 'ls -l'

alias jj = 'ls -l'

Dyslexia sometimes hits hard.

I alias most common git commands because they're so frequent. Like co for git checkout.

I don't know about your other questions but here's my current list of aliases:

• g: git, also several git aliases in my global gitconfig, so I can type "g s" for git status e.g.
• y: yarn
• b: bun
• fu: flatpak update
• cu: checkupdates
• lg: lazygit
• n: nnn
• e: kak
• shutup: an hdparm incantation to spin down my noisy hard drive.

Also various forms of ls, like ll, la, just l, etc. (I made ls a function wrapping eza in fish shell as well. I like eza over standard ls.)

I use Nala for package management in my Debian systems. I've created aliases for 'apt' & 'apt-get' to use Nala instead.

Also 'll' alias for 'ls -lah'.

That's about it though.

I recently set up an alias since I do some hardware stuff and need to run programs not in my default path as sudo.

’alias sudop='sudo env PATH=$PATH'’

And that's pretty much the extent of my aliasing. I'm interested to see what other people do

no, i make shell scripts for everything in /usr/local/bin/ . i find it more easy to manage and transfer. one liners can become bigger real quick, so i start with a script right away. also, since they have the shell in the hash bang line, they work in multiple shells.

I don't use aliases but I use bash to do common things.

"bash update" will run apt update and upgrade

I use aliases to streamline some of my git workflows

Yes, when I type $installed

Come back with all installed packages with version removed. I use this for a system back up script

I do.

I use a few, but this one is the best and most used:

gg = "git log --branches --remotes --tags --graph --pretty='%C(yellow)%h %C(cyan)%cd %Cblue%aN%C(auto)%d %Creset%s' --date=relative";

Some of these demand that the terminal you use them with is kitty:

alias ipc='curl icanhazip.com'
# btop is *pretty* bloat!
alias htop='btop'
# I'm kinda proud of this oneliner. It's pointless, but it was fun. It displays a random square image when you run
# neofetch rather than the default ansi art
alias neofetch='filarr=(~/Media/Images/1x1/*.*) && fil=${filarr[$RANDOM % ${#filarr[@]}]} && neofetch --kitty $fil' 
# comics are an important part of my life
alias gd='cd ~ ; gallery-dl'
alias gde="cd ~ ; gallery-dl --chapter-filter 'lang == (\"en\")'"
alias yd='yt-dlp --sub-langs all --embed-subs --embed-chapters --progress --paths home:~/Downloads'
alias subl="/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text"
#exa is currently unmaintained. eza is a maintained fork. It installs a link to exa, but...
alias ls="eza --icons --hyperlink --group-directories-first --git"
alias lsblkv="lsblk -o \"NAME,KNAME,SIZE,TYPE,VENDOR,MODEL,MOUNTPOINT\""
alias icat="kitty +kitten icat"
alias mem="grep -e Dirty: /proc/meminfo; grep -e Writeback: /proc/meminfo"
alias flush="sync"
alias links="links https://www.duckduckgo.com"
alias q="qalc"
alias hf="history 1 | fzf"
# tile the first two kitty windows and resize all kitty windows to 915x945, redirecting any errors to /dev/null
alias tk="xdotool search --class kitty windowmove %1 30 105 windowmove %2 975 105 windowsize %@ 915 945 2>/dev/null"
# only ask for password once on long updates
alias yay="yay --sudoloop"

me:
wgup="sudo wg-quick up wg0"
wgdown="sudo wg-quick down wg0"
and some pacman cleaning command..
edit: forgot that it is markdown

OMZsh has some powerful auto complete if you care to look around. Their plugins are amazing for saving time.

Only for typos alias bim="vim"

Slightly.

These are the aliases I set manually:

alias :q='exit'
alias kgpg='gpgconf --kill gpg-agent'
alias battery='upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1 | grep -wE "percentage:|time to empty:|state:|energy:|energy-rate:|voltage:"'
alias park='sudo hdparm --idle-unload'

I've got a ton, most are already listed or along the same vein.

The two suggestions I have are not actual aliases but worth remembering:

• Ctrl + Alt + E - turn your alias into its original command
• \ - Place before your alias to run the original command's meaning. Useful if you overwrite a default command (overwriting default commands is not recommended though... often the alias will ignore any options passed through and so let's say you overwrite rm with another app that deletes files, then you forget that, and then try to delete some files using rm-i to get a prompt for each removed file. Often the alias will just operate as normal w/o a prompt saying that it ignored -i completely)

My aliases all involve updating Docker containers or managing VPN and SSH connections to the laptop that hosts them.

I'm a bit confused as to what you mean by "I’ve used them in the past and on specific programs but never on command line utilities". What's an example of an alias you used outside CLIs?