do you have any good aliases you can share?

[ice60]

if you are like me - a newbie here's a description of an alias from here

alias - an alternate name or abbreviation (usually short and easy to remember) that substitutes for a pathname, command, list, or expression (usually long and hard to remember).

i think to get it working you have to do this

gedit .bashrc

then uncomment these lines

#if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
#   . ~/.bash_aliases
#fi

i think that's how they look to start with, anyway they should look like this when you have finished and saved the file

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    . ~/.bash_aliases
fi

then create or make sure you have this file in your home directory

.bash_aliases

you can check by doing this when you first open bash, or your commmand line program

ls -a

if it's not there just make the file

gedit .bash_aliases

lol, i only wanted to ask if anyone could show me some good aliases not write a tutorial i hope someone shows me some now thanks.

if everything i have written is correct and there isn't already a tutorial about enabling aliases and there's no easier way maybe i'll submit as a howto.

[dabear]

Here are mine:

alias x='gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf'
alias upgrade='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'
alias apt='gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list'

[nanotube]

Here are mine:

hehe, dabear, how often do you dist-upgrade that you decided to make an alias for it?

anyway, here are mine:

alias ll='ls -al --color=auto'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias rm='rm -i'

nothing fancy... just to make sure that mv/cp/rm ask confirmation (unless overridden specifically), and a shortcut for long-listing for ls.
the ones by dabear are nice, but i dont edit my xorg.conf, or sources.list so frequently that i need an alias for them.

[IYY]

alias upgrade='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'

Good one!

[ice60]

thanks, everyone d(-_^) i hope people keep posting because i think even if no one uses anyone elses aliases, you can still learn just from seeing how people use their computer.

i don't understand why dabear uses gksudo for this one, can anyone explain why it's used instead of sudo? thanks everyone

alias apt='gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list'

[pitkali]

AFAIK the only difference here is that gksudo will ask for a password in a nice GTK+ window

[Super King]

I don't have any fancy ones, just shortcuts for getting to my frequently used directories.

alias d='cd /home/myusername/Downloads'
alias p='cd /home/myusername/Pics'
alias s='cd /home/myusername/School'

[Christmas]

AFAIK the only difference here is that gksudo will ask for a password in a nice GTK+ window

Here is what Wiki says about this:

NEVER use sudo to start graphical programs. You should always use gksudo or kdesu to run such programs, otherwise new login attempts may fail. If this happens and at login an error message reports: "Unable to read ICE authority file", log in using the failsafe terminal and execute the command below substituting user for your username.

[Christmas]

Oh, and btw, I uncommented the lines in .bashrc, I made a new file called .bash_aliases and entered this line:

alias x='gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

However when I type "x" in the terminal it says "command not found". What am I doing wrong?

[endersshadow]

alias ls='ls -p'
alias ll='ls -lahp'
alias inkscapeprint='inkscape -p Deskjet-3650'

I love my ll alias. Not only does it print long listings, but it also prints sizes in human readable format (1K instead of 1024), and it adds a / at the end of directories.