Usefull aliases in “.bash_profile”? [closed]

Question

E.g.:

echo 'alias myip="curl -s "http://checkip.dyndns.org/" | grep -o "[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*" | head -1"' >> /home/USER/.bash_profile

when I type "myip" then I will get my public IP address

Answer 1

Here are a few of my aliases.

when I want to open a file with the GUI, i type go filename

alias go='xdg-open'

reccords the desktop with ffmpeg, and save to the specified file

alias recordDesktop='ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 800x600 -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq'

Starts a simple http server with python

alias simpleServer='python -m SimpleHTTPServer'

Color in grep :

alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto' 

Aliases for ls alias ldir='ls -d */' alias lgrep='ls | grep' alias l='ls -CF' alias la='ls -A' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias lx='ls -CFlash'

Start and stop lampp

alias lamppstart='sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start'
alias lamppstop='sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop'

sl is always fun when you typo ls, but you want to be able to interrupt it, since it's not interruptable by default.

alias sl='sl -e'

Aliases for the vim server

alias vimc='vim --remote-tab-silent'
alias vims='vim --servername VIM'

I have this in my ~/.bash_functions, to scrape files from a website :

function wget_scrape {
   wget -r -l1 -np -A.$1 -nd $2
}

just a note, if you have many aliases, you may want to define them in ~/.bash_aliases, and add this somewhere in ~/.bashrc (i think it's there by default in ubuntu) :

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
     . ~/.bash_aliases
fi

Answer 2

The only one I have that I really care about (doesn't always do a perfect job though):

cless() {
  echo -en '\033]2;Viewing: '"$1"'\007' 1>&2
  pygmentize -f terminal "$1" | less -R
}