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Alias's rule
(sh.itjust.works)
Get thefuck out, and move on.
Seems like something I'd make around the 4th no sleep day. Nice.
The amount of times I've spent 3-4 days to write a script that will save me a total of maybe 2hours of my time over a lifetime of use.
That's unmaintained pay-respects is a maintained replacement.
A core memory
I forgot this existed
TheFuck is wrong with me
This is so funny and useful
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This is in my ~/.aliasrc :)
Just install the train app
Nah, I've had this in here for +15 years now 😃
Also gti for your git fails
alias nano='fail; vim'
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But how would you run sl, the steam locomotive?
I know you're joking but:
\sl or command sl.
I'd say "check your shell documentation" but they're both almost impossible to search for. They both work in Bash. Both skip aliases and shell functions and go straight to shell builtins or things in the $PATH.
There's also /usr/bin/sl but you knew that.
There's also
/usr/bin/slbut you knew that.
$ ls /usr/bin
env
I guess I could env sl?
Caught the NixOS user
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alias cp='rm -rf'
Some people want to watch the world burn.
In order to improve your accuracy might I suggest:
alias i='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
alias s='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
alias sl='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
alias ll='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
...
Etcetera. It will make sure you are punished for typos
Make sure to do
alias i='echo <password> | sudo -S rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
For maximum damage, even when you're not root!
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sudo apt install sl
Thank me later
I remember people groaning in the CS lab in college when they realized they hadn't locked their machine before walking away for just long enough to let someone install sl.
I am a menace around unlocked computers. Was at a job and found a colleague who left his computer unlocked and had customer information open in a co working space on his screen. Set his computer language to hebrew before locking it.
Another time in college I found an unlocked computer in a library. Set their profile picture to Chris Chan with an overlay image saying "#ThisIsMyAuthenticSelf #Unafraid". On this system, the user was not likely to see their own picture, but other people they contact will.
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Make sure to add “Defaults insults” to /etc/sudo while you’re at it.
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You can pry my Steam Locomotive from my cold dead hands!
alias ll='ls -l'
ls on smol screen, ls -lah on big screen.
Should have left ‘sl’ for the train!
The classic:
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/sl
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I alias rm to rm -r for easy folder deleting
UGH that shit.
rm deletes a file. It can't delete a directory, you have to use
rmdir to delete a directory...as long as there's nothing in that directory. If there's anything in the directory, you have to know to use
rm -r to delete a directory and its contents, and no
rmdir -r isn't right somehow!
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Would "Danger" happen to be your middle name by any chance?
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Precise typing? Do you mean hitting tab?
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alias apt='reboot'
I've done similar before and was still blown away by the bad data.
Somewhat unrelated, but still a hell of a story in the power of human input into data...
Working in the healthcare industry during COVID, federal law had 18,000 of our employees required to submit proof of vaccination to continue working in our hospitals and clinics. All they had to do was get their vaccination certificate PDF off the government website, type in their staff number, and upload the form, we then submit this information as the employer to confirm that these people do indeed work for us and are safe to continue doing so.
56% managed to do it. The rest were all sorts of shit. Most common were people that took photos of their computer screen, converted the photo to PDF, and uploaded that. Next most common was people print the PDF, scan it, then upload the scan PDF.
We had thought of everything to make a simple download then upload as easy as possible, including a 3 step video, and yet they went above and beyond in unimaginable ways. The people that genuinely didn't know what to do hit the support link so they could be guided through it and did things perfectly in a couple mins—the self-confessed computer illiterate people were not a problem at all.
Thanks to training a form detection bot, I got it down to under 2000 remaining in a day, and the looming threat of "You have to do this or we can't legally give you work and pay you until you do" quickly sorted out the rest.
People will ALWAYS fuck things up in ways you've never thought of before. Reading the short, clear, and user friendly instructions for the simple job doesn't work and they'll get angry that something went wrong, every fucking time.
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dc is docker compose on my servers and yes, I often mistype dc/cd
dc is short for desk calculator
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No alias for suro or ks?
My preferred alias is
alias l='ls -latrF'
It's the command line version of setting your file browser to list files with details instead of showing a grid of icons.
Edit: I did install sl thanks to some of the other comments. Beautiful!
I recently switched to a mechanical keyboard (with linear switches), and it took me a while to stop mistyping every command
What do you have against desktop calculator? I used to do some code golfing with it even
Poor dc, no one ever uses it on purpose it seems D=
alias arch-update='sudo pacman -Syu && Yay -Syu && flatpak update && sudo freshclam'
Isn't pacman -Syu redundant if you run yay -Syu afterwards? Also, just yay is the same as yay -Syu
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I just realized that this is somebody’s actual alias list and not just a joke.
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On the off chance someone here is an R user, there's the fcuk package: https://thinkr-open.github.io/fcuk/articles/fcuk.html
alias dir='ls'
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My favorite was "quti" actually quitting Quake 3.
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