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 "$(wl-paste)"
}
alias qr='qrencode -t ansiutf8'
This makes qr codes in the terminal.
needs the
qrencode
packageExample usage and output:
felix@buttsexmachine:~$ qr lemmy.fish █████████████████████████████ █████████████████████████████ ████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █▄ ██ █ ▄▄▄▄▄ ████ ████ █ █ █ █▄▀▄█ █ █ ████ ████ █▄▄▄█ █▄▄▄███ █▄▄▄█ ████ ████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄▀ █▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄████ ████▄▄▄ █▀▄▀▄▀ █▀▄▀▀ █ ████ ████▄ ▀▄▀▄▄ ▀▄▄█ ▄▄▄█▀█ ▄████ ██████▄███▄█▀█ ▄█▄ █▀█▀▄▄████ ████ ▄▄▄▄▄ ██ ▀▀▀▀▄ ▀█▀████ ████ █ █ █▀ ▀▄█▀▀▄▄ ▀█████ ████ █▄▄▄█ █ ▀█ ▀█▀ █▄▄█▀████ ████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄▄█▄▄▄███▄▄██████ █████████████████████████████ █████████████████████████████ ```*___*
alias sl=“ls“
real ones watch the train of shame
alias sl='ls | while IFS= read -r line; do while IFS= read -r -n1 char; do if [[ -z "$char" ]]; then printf "\n"; else printf "%s" "$char"; sleep 0.05; fi; done <<< "$line"; done'
I can’t easily check if it works until I get home to my laptop, but you get the idea
alias gimme='git checkout'
Twins(-ish)!
alias gimme="chown <myname>:staff"
Polls for potential zombie processes:
# Survive the apocalypse function zombies () { ps -elf | grep tsc | awk '{print $2}' | while read pid; do lsof -p $pid | grep cwd | awk '{printf "%-20s ", $2; $1=""; print $9}' done } export -f zombies alias zeds="watch -c -e -n 1 zombies"
on most of my systems I get tired of constantly
ls
ing after acd
so I combine them:cd(){ cd $1 && ls }
(excuse if this doesn’t work, I am writing this from memory)
I also wrote a function to access docker commands quicker on my Truenas system. If passed nothing, it enters the docker jailmaker system, else it passes the command to docker running inside the system.
docker () { if [[ "$1" == "" ]]; then jlmkr shell docker return else sudo systemd-run --pipe --machine docker docker "$@" return fi }
I have a few similar shortcuts for programs inside jailmaker and long directories that I got sick of typing out.
# Copy pwd into clipboard using pbcopy alias cpwd="pwd | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy && echo 'pwd copied into clipboard'"
I made this one to find binaries in NixOs and other systems
get_bin_path() { paths=${2:-$PATH} for dr in $(echo $paths | tr ':' '\n') ; do if [ -f "$dr/$1" ] ; then echo "$dr/$1" return 0 fi done return 1 }
Then I made this one to, if I have a shell o opened inside neovim it will tell the neovim process running the shell to open a file on it, instead of starting a new process
_nvim_con() { abs_path=$(readlink --canonicalize "$@" | sed s'| |\\ |'g) $(get_bin_path nvim) --server $NVIM --remote-send "<ESC>:edit $abs_path<CR>" exit } # start host and open file _nvim_srv() { $(get_bin_path nvim) --listen $HOME/.cache/nvim/$$-server.pipe $@ } if [ -n "$NVIM" ] ; then export EDITOR="_nvim_con" else export EDITOR="_nvim_srv" fi
Lastly this bit: which if it detects a file and a line number split by a
:
it will open the file and jump to the line_open() { path_parts=$(readlink --canonicalize "$@" | sed s'| |\\ |'g | sed 's/:/\t/' ) file=$(echo "$path_parts" | awk ' { print $1 }' ) line=$(echo "$path_parts" | awk ' { print $2 }' ) if [ -n "$line" ] ; then # has line number if [ -n "$NVIM" ] ; then $(get_bin_path nvim) --server $NVIM --remote-send "<ESC>:edit $file<CR>:+$line<CR>" exit else $(get_bin_path nvim) --listen $HOME/.cache/nvim/$$-server.pipe $file "+:$line" fi else $EDITOR $file fi } alias nvim="_open"
git() { if [ "$1" = clone ]; then shift set -- clone --recursive "$@" fi command git "$@" }
Is this just meant to make git clone always clone recursively?
Can’t you do this with aliases in your .gitconfig?
yes it is. idk😄 i have a similar one for github-cli
Currently using this to resize screenshots in a Word doc
#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
^+1:: { Send “{RButton}z{Tab 3}4{Enter}” }
I don’t have anything too fancy. I use [theFuck(https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) to handle typos, and I have some variables set to common directories that I use.
alias cls=clear
My first language was QB, so it makes me chuckle.
Also,
alias cim=vim
. If I had a penny…I also have cls aliased to clear! I used to use windows terminal and found myself compulsively typing cls when I moved to linux.
alias ed=$EDITOR
Extremely convenient on a qwerty keyboard.
This should probably be a default nowadays. Does even a single person here use the real
ed
?Me. Along with vi depending on my mood.
# grep search the current directory function lg() { ls -alt | grep $1 }
I often want to know the status code of a
curl
request, but I don’t want that extra information to mess with the response body that it prints to stdout.What to do?
Render an image instead, of course!
curlcat
takes the same params ascurl
, but it uses iTerm2’simgcat
tool to draw an “HTTP Cat” of the status code.It even sends the image to stderr instead of stdout, so you can still pipe
curlcat
tojq
or something.#!/usr/bin/env zsh stdoutfile=$( mktemp ) curl -sw "\n%{http_code}" $@ > $stdoutfile exitcode=$? if [[ $exitcode == 0 ]]; then statuscode=$( cat $stdoutfile | tail -1 ) if [[ ! -f $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode ]]; then curl -so $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode https://http.cat/$statuscode fi imgcat $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode 1>&2 fi cat $stdoutfile | ghead -n -1 exit $exitcode
Note: This is macOS-specific, as written, but as long as your terminal supports images, you should be able to adapt it just fine.
LOVE this
this one is clean asl
alias fuck='sudo $(history -p \!\!)'
sudo !!
Try it, and you will find it just does not provide the same emotional peace.
I like to imagine I’m yelling it. SUDO!!!
Why not use thefuck which also corrects typos?
Because i’m not a psychopath, just autistic.
Nice
I have the same but it’s called “please”
i touch computers since almost 40 years. “Please” stopped being an option somewhere in the early 2000’s.