What are your favourite alias commands?

**Rytron** · May 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by RiceMonster

Wouldn't it be alias person='man'?

Hi.
What is

Code:

yes RiceMonster

**Tibuda** · May 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by Rytron

Hi.
What is

Code:

yes RiceMonster

Originally Posted by man yes

yes - output a string repeatedly until killed

Code:

$ yes RiceMonster | head
RiceMonster
RiceMonster
RiceMonster
RiceMonster
RiceMonster
RiceMonster
RiceMonster
RiceMonster
RiceMonster
RiceMonster

**RiceMonster** · May 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by Rytron

Hi.
What is

Code:

yes RiceMonster

Type it into a terminal. it just repeatadly prints RiceMonster, as danielrmt said.

Hit Ctrl-C to stop it.

**benj1** · May 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by swoll1980

alias rootilus='gksu nautilus /'
alias grootit='gksu gedit'

ha ha like it

**Rytron** · May 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by RiceMonster

Type it into a terminal. it just repeatadly prints RiceMonster, as danielrmt said.

Hit Ctrl-C to stop it.

Cool. A little Easter Egg/Linux quirk.

**Tibuda** · May 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by Rytron

Cool. A little Easter Egg/Linux quirk.

It's not a easter egg, it can be useful. You can pipe it to any command that needs a [y/n] confirmation, so you don't have to confirm it.

**Kareeser** · May 23rd, 2009

I aliased "sysupd" to "sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade"

I like the command line for the update process...

**SuperSonic4** · May 23rd, 2009

Since I can never remember the command for "refreshing" the plasmoid list:

Code:

alias plasmoid='kbuildsycoca4'

**bostonaholic** · June 25th, 2009

since I'm always switching between JDK's...

Code:

alias jv='java -version'

**Sporkman** · June 25th, 2009

Code:

alias ls='ls --color=none'
alias l='echo ; echo $PWD; echo; ls -F; echo '
alias clean='rm *~'
alias stat='acpi -V'
alias mktar='tar -cvf'
alias mkbz2='tar -cvjf'
alias mkgz='tar -cvzf'
alias untar='tar -xvf'
alias unbz2='tar -xvjf'
alias ungz='tar -xvzf'
alias cdc='cd $CF3_HOME'
alias indrv='sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc1 mydata ; sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/mydata /media/usbdrv/'
alias outdrv='sudo umount /media/usbdrv/ ; sudo cryptsetup luksClose mydata'