Comments on: Making The Linux Command Line A Little Friendlier

By: Sikku

Sikku — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:47:01 +0000

I am happy without any aliases…
The only alias I use is
lsd=”ls -lhrt” #sort files with modification date and display size in Mb.

By: Jose Trigueros

Jose Trigueros — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:53:13 +0000

I don’t know if this behaviour is expected but when I used the alias:
alias install=’sudo apt-get install’

I cannot autocomplete anything after I type intall. For example, if I type:
inst #this autocompletes to ‘install’
Which is good but now if I go and do this:
install abr #nothing happens
but if I were to do:
sudo apt-get install abr #this autocompletes to ‘abrowser’
which is the expected output.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

By: Articles Collection of Mar’09 « Dako-Tux

Articles Collection of Mar’09 « Dako-Tux — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:30:27 +0000

[...] Making The Linux Command Line A Little Friendlier [...]

By: The Right Way to Help | Ubuntard.com

The Right Way to Help | Ubuntard.com — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:03:08 +0000

[...] Making The Linux Command Line A Little Friendlier by Joshua Price. [...]

By: HowtoMatrix » Making The Linux Command Line A Little Friendlier

HowtoMatrix » Making The Linux Command Line A Little Friendlier — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:11:43 +0000

[...] Read more at Make Tech Easier [...]

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:04:18 +0000

You’re right, that was supposed to be “dfree”, thanks

By: Zack

Zack — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:48:19 +0000

I don’t think it’s a good idea to suggest users replace the `free` command with an alias for human readable `df` output.

By: dayo

dayo — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:09:22 +0000

I messed up the copyPaste on the following aliases:

alias i0=’iftoalias up=’cd ..’
alias upl=’cd ..;dir’
alias ll=’last | less’p -i eth0?

the correct pasting would be:
alias i0=’iftop -i eth0′
alias up=’cd..’
alias ll=’last | less’

Sorry about that.

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:59:06 +0000

Thanks dayo, there’s some useful stuff in there.

I might as well add one of my own that I forgot to include in the original artcle

alias lsize=”ls -lSrh” #show files sorted by size

By: dayo

dayo — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:37:03 +0000

here are some of the aliases i find useful:

alias dir=’ls -alh’
alias dirr=’ls -altrh’
alias dl=’dir | less’
alias dlr=’dirr | less’
alias i0=’iftoalias up=’cd ..’
alias upl=’cd ..;dir’
alias ll=’last | less’p -i eth0′
alias vi=’vim’
alias syns=’synergys -f –config .synergy.conf’
alias rsn=’sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart’
alias wgc=’wget -c’

By: lukerazor

lukerazor — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:26:38 +0000

I always add cd..=”cd ..” , I always stuff that up :).

I also use cp=”cp -v” and similar for mv and rm coz I like to see what is happening

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:23:25 +0000

bash has a built-in autocompletion feature. If you type the first few letters of a command, say “firef” and hit tab, it’ll fill out the rest.

If you’re not sure exactly what the command is, or more than one command starts with those letters, you can hit tab twice and it’ll show all possible options. To see all commands starting with “gnome-”, you could type “gnome-(tab)(tab)” and it’ll list out all possible options.

And man (command) in most circumstances will show all the possible options to that command.

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:22:06 +0000

bash has a built-in autocompletion feature. If you type the first few letters of a command, say “firef” and hit tab, it’ll fill out the rest.

And man (command) in most circumstances will show all the possible options to that command.

By: daroon

daroon — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:07:22 +0000

The one big advantage with a GUI and the biggest problem with a CLI is that with a GUI you can see what your options are and with a CLI you have to know what they are. If there was some way to divide the screen into a section with the CLI, a section with a list of commands that was filtered by what was being typed on the CLI (a sort of auto-completing search function and a third section that would show the possible options, switches and arguments for each selected command, a newbie could learn while using.
The faster a newbie could learn the commands the more the CLI would get used.

By: Making The Linux Command Line A Little Friendlier | Computer Hardware

Making The Linux Command Line A Little Friendlier | Computer Hardware — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:34:46 +0000

[...] Continued here: Making The Linux Command Line A Little Friendlier [...]