My favourite aliases…

June 24, 2011

Something I recently (embarrassingly) discovered is that bash supports the concept of aliases, which are like shorthand for commonly used commands. Ubuntu comes with a few as default already in your .bashrc, e.g. ‘ll’ for ‘ls -alF’ (long listing). You’re free of course to add your own in .bashrc, so here I present some of the ones I use:

alias chx='chmod +x' alias rvim='sudo vim' (if you use VIM that is ) alias sagi='sudo apt-get install -y' alias sagr='sudo apt-get remove' alias sagu='sudo apt-get update' alias saar='sudo add-apt-repository'

I find that especially the apt ones save a lot of typing. Hope you find them useful!

(oh yeah, just put the lines in your ~/.bashrc and run ‘source ~/.bashrc’)

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you can also put them in a separate file ~/.bash_aliases which is easier to read and quite useful if you want to copy them
by delarocque julien June 24, 2011 at 11:25 am

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- Actually, I keep my .bashrc synced between my systems with Ubuntu One so its just as easy with one file, but yes using .bash_aliases seems more organised.
  by brendandonegan June 25, 2011 at 11:05 am
  
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My favorite “alias” for apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg and other is the “wajig” program.
by Nicola Larosa July 5, 2011 at 10:35 am

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