Useful aliases in .bashrc?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi Tim,


I really like your way of doing things.


Quick question, please ramble if you'd like, managing podcasts, how?


To expand on that a bit, what do you use for a pod catcher; where do 
they go, in short, what is the easiest way to deal with your podcasts, 
especially if you have many of the things, like I currently do on my phone.


I'd like to get most of them off of there, space and all.

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

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On 2021/12/05 16:16, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Tim here. A couple from my collection:
>
>
> Sometimes I type "cd .." too quickly, and miss the space or even a
> period too, so these make my typos work as expected
>
>    alias cd..='cd ..'
>    alias cd.='cd ..'
>
> I commonly jump to my MP3/podcast queue directory and run a command
> (`biggest`) that finds all the files in the subdirectories and sorts
> them all from smallest to largest (big ones that don't sound
> interesting are the first on my chopping-block for saving time/space):
>
>    alias mp3='pushd ~/Music/podcasts/; biggest -h | tail -20'
>
> Also helping with podcasts I have
>
>    alias ti='id3 -q "%_p%_f: %t"'
>
> to give me the titles of podcasts I point it at.
>
> I also keep my finances in ledger(1) format and have a number of
> aliases around manipulating those
>
>    alias fin='pushd ~/finances/ledger'
>    alias le='pushd ~/finances/ledger; vim +$ $(date +%Y).txt'
>
>    checking() {
>      pushd ~/finances/ledger
>      ledger -f only"$(date +%Y)".txt --pedantic register Checking "$@"
>    }
>
>    led() {
>      pushd ~/finances/ledger
>      ledger -f only"%(date +%Y)".txt --pedantic balance -l "commodity == 'USD'" not "Equity:Opening Balances" and not "^Income:" "$@"
>    }
>
>
> The "fin" alias just takes me to the directory; the "le" opens the
> current year's data in vim and places the cursor at the bottom so I
> can add new entries; the "checking" function gives me my checkbook
> register (to which I can append "--cleared" for only those
> transactions that have cleared); and the "led" function gives me a
> hierarchical overview of all of my accounts and how they roll up.  I
> also have a more complicated "pay" shell-function that will look for
> the most recent transaction that matches some parameters and
> re-create that transaction with today's date in my preferred format,
> and set the amount to the specified quantity letting me do things like
>
>    $ pay kroger 38.21
>
> rather than manually find & copy the entire block, and update the
> amounts.
>
> Finally, I keep my calendar in remind(1) format so I have several
> aliases that help me set all my preferred parameters
>
>    alias 1='rem -g -q -iCOLOR=2 - at 2'
>    for i in 2 3 4 5 6
>    do
>      alias $i='rem -g -q -iCOLOR=2 - at 2 "*"'$i
>    done
>
> so I can just type "1" for today's agenda or "3" for a 3-day agenda.
> (I can ramble for hours on using remind and have a lengthy blog post
> about it.  If you want a text-based workflow for your calendar, it's
> *amazing*!)
>
> Hopefully this gives you some more ideas,
>
> -Tim
>
>
> On December  5, 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I have never really played with .bashrc, but have found it rather
>> useful to add a few aliases to it.
>>
>>
>> The one I find most useful so far is the alias to my "startwin.sh"
>> qemu script. I use
>>
>>
>> alias windows="sh ~/qemu/startwin.sh"
>>
>>
>> instead of having to type, every time
>>
>>
>> sh ~/qemu/startwin.sh
>>
>>
>> If you have any useful aliases to share, please do?
>>
>>
>> After all, why should we not make each other's lives a bit easier?
>>
>> -- 
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Brandt Steenkamp
>>
>> Sent from Slint Linux using Thunderbird
>>
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