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    [–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 16 hours ago

    I, for one, really love HTTP over

    apache2.conf
    conf-available/
    conf-enabled/
    mods-available/
    mods-enabled/
    sites-available/
    sites-enabled/
    envvars
    magic
    ports.conf
    sites-available/
    sites-enabled/
    
    [–] puchaczyk@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Precise typing? Do you mean hitting tab?

    [–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Tabbing? I just copy and paste my commands from ~~stack overflow~~ AI garbage now.

    I should add an alias for 'snyc'

    [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I just realized that this is somebody’s actual alias list and not just a joke.

    [–] marzhall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

    Not as long as OP's, but I've had alias cim=vim for a minute. Brain just don't do it

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    My preferred alias is

    alias l='ls -latrF'
    

    It's the command line version of setting your file browser to list files with details instead of showing a grid of icons.

    Edit: I did install sl thanks to some of the other comments. Beautiful!

    [–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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    [–] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 146 points 2 days ago (10 children)
    [–] artiman@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    That's unmaintained pay-respects is a maintained replacement.

    [–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (14 children)
    [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

    I love how it's not just a fork, it's a rewrite in Rust. Of course it is.

    quietly cargo installs pay-respects in his corner

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    [–] dunz@feddit.nu 107 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    This is in my ~/.aliasrc :)

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Just install the train app

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    [–] iveseenthat@reddthat.com 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
    [–] passepartout@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago

    ls on smol screen, ls -lah on big screen.

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
    alias arch-update='sudo pacman -Syu && Yay -Syu && flatpak update && sudo freshclam'
    
    [–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Isn't pacman -Syu redundant if you run yay -Syu afterwards? Also, just yay is the same as yay -Syu

    [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    In an alias like this, running pacman first has the advantage that the true Arch packages install completely before any AUR packages that require slow downloads, package compression, or long build steps.

    [–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

    I'm not sure about yay but paru installs them completely first too, before AUR stuff. It literally runs pacman -Syu

    [–] slowcakes@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Yes but who cares, it works and that is all that matter.

    If you would see my dotfiles, you would see a lot of unnecessary shit, because I don't write them to be perfect, I write something when I realize this would be nice in the moment, and I just do it as I know how to and just leave it, as long as it works.

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    Yes but who cares, it works and that is all that matter.

    This has pretty much been my approach to everything I do lol.

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    Probably. I'll give your way a try. I never really thought about it much after writing it. Thanks!

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    [–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)
    sudo apt install sl
    

    Thank me later

    [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    I'm officially done with Google, I think. Search results for 'sl' were nothing useful. But the AI response takes the cake.

    "SL" can refer to several things, but in the context of Ida-Viru County, it most likely refers to Stockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), the public transportation system in the Stockholm area.

    I don't live in that county, not even close tbh. And even if I did, how would the public transit system in another country, across a sea, be all that relevant to me?

    [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago

    I now used an actual search engine to find this article and will install it, except I don't think I'll see it all that much because I don't think I've ever misspelled 'ls' as 'sl' :(

    [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

    I remember people groaning in the CS lab in college when they realized they hadn't locked their machine before walking away for just long enough to let someone install sl.

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    [–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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    alias pqsl='psql'

    [–] digger@lemmy.ca 63 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    But how would you run sl, the steam locomotive?

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 27 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    I know you're joking but:

    \sl or command sl.

    I'd say "check your shell documentation" but they're both almost impossible to search for. They both work in Bash. Both skip aliases and shell functions and go straight to shell builtins or things in the $PATH.

    There's also /usr/bin/sl but you knew that.

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    [–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
    [–] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Some people want to watch the world burn.

    In order to improve your accuracy might I suggest:

    alias i='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    alias s='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    alias sl='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    alias ll='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    ...
    
    

    Etcetera. It will make sure you are punished for typos

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    [–] oplkill@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

    Windows programmer detected!

    (I was guilty of this so much)

    [–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

    I recently switched to a mechanical keyboard (with linear switches), and it took me a while to stop mistyping every command

    [–] Emerald@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I alias rm to rm -r for easy folder deleting

    [–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Would "Danger" happen to be your middle name by any chance?

    [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

    It is not like he put the f on it :)

    [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    UGH that shit.

    rm deletes a file. It can't delete a directory, you have to use

    rmdir to delete a directory...as long as there's nothing in that directory. If there's anything in the directory, you have to know to use

    rm -r to delete a directory and its contents, and no

    rmdir -r isn't right somehow!

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    You can pry my Steam Locomotive from my cold dead hands!

    alias apt='reboot'

    [–] otacon239@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Should have left β€˜sl’ for the train!

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