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Share a script/alias you use a lot (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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OC by @als@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

alias zipcat='gunzip -c'
alias untar='tar -xzvf'
alias ping='ping -c3'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
alias ....='cd ../../..'

[–] rutrum@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use a tool called ouch so I never have to remember the tar flags ever again.

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 3 points 17 hours ago

Oooh, ouch looks really neat! May actually cause me to retire my extract function. It suddenly feels a little incomplete by comparison, lol.

# Extract any archive
extract() {
        if [ -f "$1" ]; then
                case $1 in
                *.tar.bz2) tar xjf "$1" ;;
                *.tar.gz) tar xzf "$1" ;;
                *.bz2) bunzip2 "$1" ;;
                *.rar) unrar x "$1" ;;
                *.gz) gunzip "$1" ;;
                *.tar) tar xf "$1" ;;
                *.tbz2) tar xjf "$1" ;;
                *.tgz) tar xzf "$1" ;;
                *.zip) unzip "$1" ;;
                *.Z) uncompress "$1" ;;
                *.7z) 7z x "$1" ;;
                *) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via extract()" ;;
                esac
        else
                echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
        fi
}

[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you often (if at all) run into conflicts with the .. alias? I can't think of any case on top of my head, but it feels a bit sketchy. The more than 2 dots however I imagine is pretty safe.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, never. I rarely use the 4 dots, but 2 and 3, all the time.

Tab completion shows this:

$ ..<Tab><Tab>
../   ...   ....