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)"
}
  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    7 hours ago

    I have a few interesting ones.

    Download a video:

    alias yt="yt-dlp -o '%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' "

    Execute the previous command as root:

    alias please='sudo $(fc -n -l -1)'

    Delete all the Docker things. I do this surprisingly often:

    alias docker-nuke="docker system prune --all --volumes --force"

    This is a handy one for detecting a hard link

    function is-hardlink {
  count=$(stat -c %h -- "${1}")
  if [ "${count}" -gt 1 ]; then
    echo "Yes.  There are ${count} links to this file."
  else
    echo "Nope.  This file is unique."
  fi
}

    I run this one pretty much every day. Regardless of the distro I’m using, it Updates All The Things:

    function up {
  if [[ $(command -v yay) ]]; then
    yay -Syu --noconfirm
    yay -Yc --noconfirm
  elif [[ $(command -v apt) ]]; then
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt upgrade -y
    sudo apt autoremove -y
  fi
  flatpak update --assumeyes
  flatpak remove --unused --assumeyes
}

    I maintain an aliases file in GitLab with all the stuff I have in my environment if anyone is curious.

    • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      6 hours ago

      Execute the previous command as root

      Fun fact if you are using bash, !! will evaluate to the previous command, so if you miss sudo on some long command, you can also just do sudo !!.