awesome-bashrc

🚀 Curated list of awesome bashrc snippets that will make your work easier.

Inspiration

Working with bash in daily life, it is very irritating writing the same command multiple times. To avoid that we write aliases/snippets for bashrc and make our life easier.

This repository will have collection of such aliases. Read Contribution Guidelines before contributing.

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C/C++ compile and run

cpp-run() {
    echo "Compiling file..."
    g++ -o "$1" "$1.cpp"
    echo "Compiled! Enter input :D"
    ./"$1"
}
# cpp-run filename

c-run() {
    echo "Compiling file..."
    gcc -o "$1" "$1.c"
    echo "Compiled! Enter input :D"
    ./"$1"
}
# c-run filename

git diff for JS Devs

alias gd="git diff --ignore-all-space 
                    --ignore-space-at-eol 
                    --ignore-space-change 
                    --ignore-blank-lines -- . 
                    ':(exclude)*package-lock.json'"

# Write gd to ignore not important differences.
# Credits: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/9i6hl3/alias_for_open_source_js_devs/

git status

alias s="git status"

Upload your package to PyPi.org

This generates the respective dist files and uploads them to PyPi.org by asking your credentials at the end.

alias pyup="python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel && twine upload dist/*"

apt-get update

alias update='sudo apt-get update'

open

Open any file using its default program (eg. pdfs, torrents, etc).

alias open="xdg-open"

List files

alias ll='ls -laht'
alias l='ls -aC'

Check free space on disks

alias df='df -h'

Safe operations with files

alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'

git branch

This will display the current git branch of any repository you're in.

# Add git branch if its present to PS1
parse_git_branch() {
    git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
}

# Pass the function to the color parser of the terminal to colorize the branch name.
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
    if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
        PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W $(parse_git_branch)\$\[\033[00m\] '
    else
        PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\] \[\033[01;34m\]\w $(parse_git_branch)\$\[\033[00m\] '
    fi
else
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h \w \$ '
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt

git.io alias

Get shortened git.io URLs from a single command

gurl() {
    curl -i https://git.io -F "url=$1" \
    -F "code=$2"
}

# Usage
# gurl https://github.com/anshumanv anshumanv

After these steps, https://git.io/anshumanv will redirect you to https://github.com/anshumanv

tree alias

Get representation of underlying files and folders as a tree.

alias tree="find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'"

Fast upwards navigation

alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../../../'
alias ....='cd ../../../../'
alias .....='cd ../../../../'

Download music from youtube video

You will need mp3-lame library and youtube-dl utility.

alias youtube-mp3="youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3"
# Usage
# youtube-mp3 https://youtube.com/{id}

Get saved WiFi keys

alias wifikey="sudo grep -r '^psk=' /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/"
# Usage (requires sudo)
# wifikey

Take Screenshot of connected ADB Device

alias cap="adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screen.png && \
           adb pull /sdcard/screen.png && \
           adb shell rm /sdcard/screen.png"
# Usage (requires connected device)
# Saves the screenshot with name screen.png
# cap

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