Hacker News Reader

Comment by pantalaimon | Hacker News Reader

Or you just

    alias sl=ls

and have productivity reach unseen levels!

View on HN

I've had "l" aliased to "ls -lhp" for so long that I can't work properly without it. I think many distros also alias "ll" to "ls -l" by default (I think CentOS/RHEL does it at least).

I have h=ls and hh=ls -l, which are much more comfortable with the Dvorak keyboard layout. (The equivalent would be j and jj on Qwerty.)

Good idea. Dvorak users unite!

Do you use regular dvorak or programmer dvorak?

British Dvorak, since it keeps ", £, # etc where I expect them, but is still a standard layout available on Linux and Mac.

I aliased d instead. I also have ll and la but I don't use them that often so didn't change them to be Dvorak optimized.

I, too, have "l" aliased, but years of muscle memory I still type "ls -lahp" every single friggin' time. Hey, at least it's portable when I'm ssh'd to another system.

    alias l="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 1"
    alias l2="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 2"
    alias l3="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 3"
    alias l4="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 4"
    alias l5="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 5"

( or https://github.com/ogham/exa in tree mode )

I have l aliased to -lhrt since it’s what I mostly need.

I have a few "idiot aliases" like that...

  alias grpe=grep
  alias gerp=grep

My personal favorite is:

   alias fuck='sudo $(fc -nl -1)'

Be very careful with this.

What about the actual program thefuck? It can fix more than just sudo, and asks you to confirm

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

I don't want to be asked and I don't want to install anything.

I looked at thefuck but it didn't seem to do anything I needed.

Or make history work for you:

  shopt -s histverify histreedit

Bash will let you then confirm the actual command it's going to run:

  sudo !!

I use zsh and I don't know what shopt is. That's two commands and !! doesn't work in aliases.

So why not just type 'sudo !!' ?

Because it isn't as much fun.

In zsh it is called setopt. You don't need to make an alias, you would put this in your .bashrc

Here's one of my aliases for you:

    function fuckgit
        rm -rf /tmp/fuckgit/
        git clone --no-checkout (git config --get remote.origin.url) /tmp/fuckgit/
        rm -rf .git/
        mv /tmp/fuckgit/.git .
        rm -rf /tmp/fuckgit/
    end

I think you can try this. https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

    alias gti='/usr/local/bin/git'
    alias gut='/usr/local/bin/git'

> grpe

Every. Single. Time. Sometimes I even typo it many times in a row.

There must be //something// in that combination of letters, because I don't recall ever having that many mistakes with any other commands.

I think that many of my typos occur when switching between letters on one hand vs the other. I figure it's a brain hemisphere synchronization thing.

I generally have this in my bash_aliases

    alias ls='ls -lah --color="auto"'
    alias l='ls -lah --color="auto"'
    alias ll='ls -lah --color="auto"'
    alias sl='ls -lah --color="auto"'

For some reason the typo I tend to make the most is ';s', so I've gone ahead and set `alias s=ls`

I mean, yeah, you could, but that's not as much fun.

I've set alias ls=sl in dozens of systems belonging to colleagues over the years, just for the lulz! :D :D

This program reverses the output.

alias lsd="ls -d */"

Reply on news.ycombinator.com