Aliases

Directory

..

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Go back one directory back

…

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Go back two directory back

….

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Go back three directory back

…..

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Go back 4 directory back

~

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Go to home directory

–

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Toggle between directories

Shortcuts

c

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Clear terminal

dl

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Change directory to ~/Downloads

dt

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Change directory to ~/Desktop

p

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Change directory to ~/code

pp

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Change directory to ~/code/personal

pw

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Change directory to ~/code/work

g

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Alias for git

rmd

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Remove a directory and all files

7z

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Requirements

This alias requires 7zzs, see https://www.7-zip.org/download.html.

Extract/compress archives using 7-zip - use: 7z <file>

papers

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Requirements

This alias requires flatpak, see https://flatpak.org/setup/ and Papers, see https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Papers.

Open Papers

Shortcuts for Executables

fs

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Requirements

This alias requires eza, see https://github.com/akshaybabloo/fs_rs.

Get the size of a file or directory

ls

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Requirements

This alias requires eza, see https://github.com/eza-community/eza.

List all files colorized using eza

ll

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Requirements

This alias requires eza, see https://github.com/eza-community/eza.

List all files colorized in long format using eza

cat

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Requirements

This alias requires cat, see https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

Use bat instead of cat to output file contents

top

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Requirements

This alias requires btop++, see https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

Use btop instead of top to monitor system resources

jdk

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Requirements

This alias required that you have JDK installed.

Use jdk to update the default Java version

Other Aliases

grep

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reload

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Reload the shell (i.e. invoke as a login shell)

path

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Print each PATH entry on a separate line

logcat

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Requirements

This alisa requires adb, see https://developer.android.com/studio.

Logcat with colors

fz

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Requirements

This alisa requires fzf, see https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.

Fuzzy find files, preview with bat, and open with VS Code

sup

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Upgrades system libraries

supc

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Autoremove and clean any dangling packages