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Big Bash Fri: What are a few of your favorite one-liners in your bashrc? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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alias seahis="cat ~/.bash_history | grep $@"

search terminal history

alias seaman="tree /usr/share/man | grep"

search for manual pages across all types and levels

alias highlight="grep -B 5000 -A 5000 $@"

use grep (should be used at the end of a "|" pipe) to highlight only. The "-B/-A" (5000) means include 5k lines above and below any matching search terms. This is handy when you have a big block of text printing in the terminal and need to find a key word. grep will color that term but print (almost) anything before or after too, making this a defacto highlight text feature.

alias commands="compgen -A function -abck"

This is the command to show all available executable commands including binaries, functions, aliases, and keywords. If you add a term after this alias it should automatically search/filter the results, if not just add " | grep $@" to the end.

(Note: Lemmy syntax I used)

spoiler "one liner" "Description" ::: (don't use the "" just use text) :::

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[–] PinGZ@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve always been partial to this one , runs the last command as sudo

alias fu='sudo fc -n -l -1'

[–] idoubledo@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 1 year ago

For a much improved functionality with the same syntax take a look at https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck