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submitted 4 months ago by als to c/linux@lemmy.ml

A while ago I made a tiny function in my ~/.zshrc to download a video from the link in my clipboard. I use this nearly every day to share videos with people without forcing them to watch it on whatever site I found it. What's a script/alias that you use a lot?

# Download clipboard to tmp with yt-dlp
tmpv() {
  cd /tmp/ && yt-dlp "$(wl-paste)"
}
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[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Hey OP, consider using $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR instead of /tmp. It's now the more proper place for these kinds of things to avoid permission issues, although I'm sure you're on a single user system like most people. I have clipboard actions set to download with yt-dlp :)

My favorite aliases are:

alias dff='findmnt -D -t nosquashfs,notmpfs,nodevtmpfs,nofuse.portal,nocifs,nofuse.kio-fuse'

alias lt='ls -t | less'

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

alias lt='ls -t | less'

Good idea! I'll steal that but I would rather be able to give a directory path as parameter (and show in colors, and don't pause if less than 1 page of content, and support the scrolwheel), also piping ls forces it to be 1 single column so might as well show more details, personally I'm gonna use this instead:

lt() { ls -t --color=always -Fgoh "$@" | less -RF --mouse; }
[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing! My ls is already aliased to ls -h --color=auto

[-] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

i use

alias kimg='kitty +kitten icat' 

to display images in my terminal pretty simple but nice

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[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To answer your question realistically I did history | sed "s/.* //" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

which returned as first non standard command lr which from my grep lr ~/.bashrc is alias lr="ls -lrth"

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

A few days ago I posted a one-liner to do the same thing too. It will resolve aliases from your history and expand program paths to its fullpath. I thought you might be interested: https://beehaw.org/post/20584479

type -P $(awk '{print $1}' ~/.bash_history | sort -u) | sort
[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing, always nice to learn alternative ways to do so!

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

Here is on that I actually don't use, but want to use it in scripts. It is meant to be used by piping it. It's simple branch with user interaction. I don't even know if there is a standard program doing exactly that already.

# usage: yesno [prompt]
# example:
#   yesno && echo yes
#   yesno Continue? && echo yes || echo no
yesno() {
    local prompt
    local answer
    if [[ "${#}" -gt 0 ]]; then
        prompt="${*} "
    fi
    read -rp "${prompt}[y/n]: " answer
    case "${answer}" in
    [Yy0]*) return 0 ;;
    [Nn1]*) return 1 ;;
    *) return 2 ;;
    esac
}
[-] XXIC3CXSTL3Z@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Ooooou I got a couple :3

This one is just a basic mirror fixing thing cuz sometimes I go a while without updating pacman:

alias fixpkg='rate-mirrors --protocol https arch | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && sudo pacman -Syy'

This function I made to create virtual audio sinks so I can route audios via qpw and play earrape into discord calls if I want XD

create_vsink() {
    local sink_name=${1:-vsink}  # Default sink name is 'vsink' if no input is provided
    local description=${2:-"Virtual Sink"}  # Default description
    pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name="$sink_name" sink_properties=device.des>
    echo "Virtual sink '$sink_name' created with description '$description'."
}

Simple parser function I made that makes a whole repo using my git key so it's not just locally created I kinda forgot why I made it tbh:

git_clone() {
    local url="${1#https://}"  # Remove "https://" if present
    git clone "https://$git_key@$url"
}

Awesome mpv function I made that allows for real time pitch+speed shifting via hotkeys and is flexible with extra parameters and shit:

mpv_pitch() {
    if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
        echo "Usage: mpv_pitch <file> [mpv-options]"
        return 1
    fi
    local file="$1"
    shift
    mpv --input-conf=/dev/stdin "$file" "$@" <<EOF
SHIFT+RIGHT add audio-pitch-correction 0; add pitch 0.01; add speed 0.01  # Decrease pit>
SHIFT+LEFT add audio-pitch-correction 0; add pitch -0.01; add speed -0.01 # Increase pit>
EOF
}

Automatic audio router for firefox audio streams that uses the aforementioned create_sink function to make a specific sink that I can use carla on to mix and make cool shit out of haha

firefox_crush() {
    create_vsink CrunchSink "CrunchSink" 
    firefox --name firefox-vc &

    (while true; do
        SINK_INPUT_ID=$(pactl list sink-inputs short | grep "firefox" | awk '{print $1}')
        if [[ -n "$SINK_INPUT_ID" ]]; then
            pactl move-sink-input "$SINK_INPUT_ID" CrunchSink
            break
        fi
        sleep 0.25
    done) &
}
[-] jcs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I wrote this suite of scripts a few years ago and still use them to:

  1. Boot into Ventoy and select a Debian Live environment
  2. Optional: connect a storage device (local partition, USB drive, etc) for persistent storage
  3. Modify cfg/cfg.sh if it's the first time using the tool
  4. Run setup.sh to configure the environment into a familiar/productive state

The tools are flexible on hardware (more directed toward x64 systems at this time), and I (almost) never have to worry about OS upgrades. Just boot into a newer live OS image once it's ready. They are still a work-in-progress and still have a few customizations that I should abstract for more general use, but it's FOSS in case anyone has merge requests, issues, suggestions, etc.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
alias gl='git log'
alias server-name-here='ssh server-name-here'

I have a bunch of the server aliases. I use those and gl the most.

[-] jwt@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

You can also use ssh shorthands in ~/.ssh/config

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I do have the servers in ~/.ssh/config. I just got tired of typing ssh server and wanted the be able to just type server to ssh in.

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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Not exactly a single script, but I use scm breeze for git stuff. Has a ton of QoL features for working with git

https://github.com/scmbreeze/scm_breeze

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

I use Clevis to auto-unlock my encrypted root partition with my TPM; this means when my boot partition is updated (E.G a kernel update), I have to update the PCR register values in my TPM. I do it with my little script /usr/bin/update_pcr:

#!/bin/bash
clevis luks regen -d /dev/nvme1n1p3 -s 1 tpm2

I run it with sudo and this handles it for me. The only issue is I can't regenerate the binding immediately after the update; I have to reboot, manually enter my password to decrypt the drive, and then do it.

Now, if I were really fancy and could get it to correctly update the TPM binding immediately after the update, I would have something like an apt package shim with a hook that does it seamlessly. Honestly, I'm surprised that distributions haven't developed robust support for this; the technology is clearly available (I'm using it), but no one seems to have made a user-friendly way for the common user to have TPM encryption in the installer.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

g-push

git push origin `git branch --show`
[-] irotsoma 2 points 3 months ago

I alias traditional stuff to better, usually drop-in versions of that thing on computers that have the better thing. I often forget which systems have the better thing, so this helps me get the better experience if I was able to install it at some point. For example I alias cat to bat, or top to htop, or dig to drill, etc.

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[-] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

To save videos from certain streaming sites that are not supported by yt-dlp, I catch the M3U playlist used by the page and with that I use this script that gets ffmpeg to put together the pieces into a single file.

#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == "-h" ] || [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
	echo Download a video from a playlist into a single file
	echo usage: $(basename $0) PLAYLIST OUTPUT_VID
	exit
fi

nbparts=$(grep ^[^#] $1 | wc -l)

echo -e "\e[38;5;202m Downloading" $(( nbparts - 1 )) "parts \e[00m"
time ffmpeg -hide_banner -allowed_extensions ALL -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i $1 -codec copy $2
[-] KR1Z2k@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

For docker: I’m not following best practices. I have a giant docker compose file for my entire home lab, this is how I update things:

alias dockpull="docker compose pull"
alias dockup="docker compose up -d --remove-orphans"
[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

alias scr=screen -dRU

I don't know why Screen has any other flags. I do not want to bother learning the keyboard shortcuts for tmux even though its probably works better

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

alias nmtui="NEWT_COLORS='root=black,black;window=black,black;border=white,black;listbox=white,black;label=blue,black;checkbox=red,black;title=green,black;button=white,red;actsellistbox=white,red;actlistbox=white,gray;compactbutton=white,gray;actcheckbox=white,blue;entry=lightgray,black;textbox=blue,black' nmtui"

It's nmtui but pretty!

[-] marzhall@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

alias cls=clear

My first language was QB, so it makes me chuckle.

Also, alias cim=vim. If I had a penny...

[-] als 2 points 3 months ago

I also have cls aliased to clear! I used to use windows terminal and found myself compulsively typing cls when I moved to linux.

[-] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago
git() {
  if [ "$1" = "cd" ]; then
    shift
    cd "./$(command git rev-parse --show-cdup)$*"
  else
    command git "$@"
  fi
}

This lets you run git cd to go to the root of your repo, or git cd foo/bar to go to a path relative to that root. You can't do it as an alias because it's conditional, and you can't do it as a git-cd command because that wouldn't affect the current shell.

[-] livingcoder@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago
# Copy pwd into clipboard using pbcopy
alias cpwd="pwd | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy && echo 'pwd copied into clipboard'"
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