<div dir="ltr">I'm as big fan of:<div><br></div><div>alias ll="ls -halF"<br></div><div><br></div><div>at least on my RHEL/Fedora boxes at work. I had gotten into the habit of using ll in Ubuntu so I miss it on RHEL.</div><div><br></div><div>As I spend much of my time at work building new VMs, I use the following command line operations to set up my .bashrc and .vimrc</div><div><br></div><div><div>echo 'alias ll="ls -halF"' >> /root/.bashrc</div><div>echo "set mouse-=a" >>/root/.vimrc</div><div>source /root/.bashrc</div></div><div><br></div><div>This allows me to add in my alias without having to open .bashrc in an editor (and also modify vim the way I like it).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 at 09:20 Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Here are aliases that I have on every machine I use, in ~/.bash_aliases <br><br></div># This makes upgrades a 2 letter affair, when I get a notification that packages are pending<br><div>alias af='sudo aptitude full-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove'<br></div><div># Or you can do an update explicitly, then upgrade<br></div><div>alias auf='sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgrade && sudo apt-get autoremove'<br><br></div><div># For Drupal, cache clearing aliases<br></div><div>alias cc='drush cache-clear'<br>alias cca='drush cache-clear all'<br><br></div><div># Drupal code and db updates<br></div><div>alias upc='drush pm-updatecode'<br>alias updb='drush updatedb'<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:50 AM, Ronald Barnes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ron@ronaldbarnes.ca" target="_blank">ron@ronaldbarnes.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>John Johnson wrote on 2018-02-06 12:29 AM:<br>
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After a fruitful chat with Paul at February's meeting I thought I would add one more topic to this thread.<br>
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alias & .bashrc<br>
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And a question: How does one set up an alias for a command line string?<br>
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If it's a one-off, "alias" is the trick.<br>
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i.e. let's create an alias called kwlug that does... something.<br>
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alias kwlug='pwd<br>
kwlug<br>
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/mnt/home-raid/ron/Documents/Toyota-4Runner<br>
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Right, so ... an aliased command called kwlug gives us our present working directory.<br>
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Useless, but illustrative.<br>
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Now, let's look at ~/.bashrc, where persistent aliases are defined, or referenced.<br>
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In my Ubuntu 16.04 .bashrc file is the following:<br>
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# Alias definitions.<br>
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like<br>
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.<br>
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.<br>
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if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then<br>
. ~/.bash_aliases<br>
fi<br>
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It's encouraging the user to place their alias definitions in ~/.bash_aliases which gets run (if it exists) from .bashrc.<br>
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I prefer to define my aliases in .bash_aliases since I can transport them between users / systems with minimal effort.<br>
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I'm sorry I'm unable to present on this topic, but thought I'd throw this out there just in case someone finds it a useful starting point.<br>
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Also, sorry for missing the february meeting.<br>
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I'm knackered from gardening on sunday. All the tulip bulbs were sprouting (easily a hundred of them) and I had to get them into the soil.<br>
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(It's my contractual obligation as a Vancouverite to bring this up, as I see the KW temperature is currently -11°C; I feel terrible about it, but what can I do?)<div class="m_8381735152314095896HOEnZb"><div class="m_8381735152314095896h5"><br>
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