Linux Crash Course - Bash Aliases

pro tip: use backslash in front of a command to temporarily bypass its alias (if any). eg: \ls

30+ year Net/Sys Admin here. I stopped using/making individual script files years ago in favor of using Aliases. This lets me keep all of my most used/custom bash scripts either as Aliases or Bash Functions in one Bash Setup Script (BSS). I keep my BSS synced to the Cloud so that it's available on all machines I access/use.

I have many aliases that I've accumulated over the years, so I created a separate file named .aliases then source it in my .zshrc file, as below; source ~/.config/.aliases I find it easier to keep track and share between my systems that way, plus it's synched to my Nextcloud and allows me to retain system specific .bashrc and .zshrc files, while having common alias listings.

Perfect timing Jay, I was just going to look up some info on these lol

For the speedtest...there is actually a package in the repository for both apt and pacman...not sure about others...which is called speedtest-cli ... That's the cli for Ookla speedtest and it essentially does the same thing

Jay....you are on a rampage!!! Another great product. "It's the little things." -someone at some point in time.

I really appreciate these videos. I'm using Pop on a system 76 laptop, but I prefer Cinnamon to Gnome. Because of this I need to use the command line to change graphics modes. I do this infrequently, so I need to web search the command each time. Simplifying this with an easily remembered alias is much easier.

what an amazing tutorial! i thoroughly enjoyed as a non-coder. thank you so much!

Thanks for all your great content. You are a very good teacher. Cheers!

I came looking for charcoal and I found gold. Thank you so much Jay.

Thanks as always Jay! Great video.

Greetings Jay! Super Awesome Video! I got my Alias start with you and Joe Collins 4 years ago. Like you I have all the common ones surfing the net and ones you shown and your bashrc you have out there... :-) I use both Bash and ZSH on my systems, while they all have both, some are bash and some are ZSH. So I create a .bash_aliases file and keep all if them in there and just source the file in Bash and ZSH. I have just the basics in both RC files and the rest in the .bash_aliases file. My top 4 are as follow... ---------------------- ## Arch based Distros ## if [ -f /usr/bin/pacman ]; then alias update='sudo systemd-inhibit pacman -Sy' alias upgrade='sudo systemd-inhibit pacman -Syyu' alias install='sudo systemd-inhibit pacman -S --needed' alias search='systemd-inhibit pacman -Ss --needed' ---------------------- I have the same for apt, just the apt command ---------------------- ## Debian based Distros ## if [ -f /usr/bin/apt ]; then alias update='sudo systemd-inhibit apt update' alias upgrade='sudo systemd-inhibit apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade' alias install='sudo systemd-inhibit apt install' alias aremove='sudo systemd-inhibit apt autoremove' ------------------------ These are my fav's :-) I have so many I forget them... LOL Thanks for the video Jay! LLAP P.S. How's the new job going... :-)

Thank you, Jay. Very good content.

bro! thank you for these GEMS!! helps make my NEWBIE Life using Linux less of a headache.

For the df alias, I will explude "overlay" too, quite common nowadays because docker. So: df -h -x squashfs -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs -x overlay

Jay, you are best teacher, thank you

Thanks very informative. I like to add aliases to ~/.bash_aliases to make backing up easy. Also having an alias like: alias addalias='nano ~/.bash_aliases' is pretty handy too.

Amazing content, well explained and easy to understand. Please make more advanced videos on bash aliases for actually hacking commands on kali linux

Ta for this video. Created i for installing apt packages and s for Snaps. Also added update for update && upgrade. Very useful. 👍

Love this, i'm also a great alias user. Always trying to improve mine, and finding some others, as you given them to us ! Thanks.. Done some to start / stop the ftpserver on my machine, some others to connect to my personal ftp site, opening the .zshrc file directly with vim, sourcing the .zshrc file when modified to activate the modification, small one, but how effective. Doing some other that are aliases within other aliases. If needed, i can use them if required. Multiple renaming... whatever possible!! you're right, you're just limited by your imagination. This is one i found useful, instead of having a visual plugin.. only in the terminal : alias meteo='curl wttr.in'