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zsh: alias or shell function to only echo its command line, including shell control characters
Using zsh, I'd like to create an alias or a shell function that operates as follows:
I want this alias or shell function to echo its command line without honoring any shell control characters such as &...
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How not to use nested strong quotes (')
I'm a relatively new user of zsh and don't know too much about shells (unfortunately). Nonetheless, I would like to define an alias in my .bashrc containing a hash. However, zsh doesn't seem to like ...
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Custom alias outside .zshrc but ZSH_CUSTOM doesn't work in kali
For reference this is not a duplicate: I reviewed other Q and A like this but it doesn't work for me.
Background:
I'm using Kali in parallels.
To keep my .zshrc file tidy I decided to mkdir ...
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How do I make an alias for a command with sudo
I want to add two aliases, so one executes a command when non sudo, and the other executes a command when sudo, like this:
alias v = 'nvim'
alias 'sudo v' = 'sudo -E nvim '
I also have set alias sudo=...
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How to send output to next input line?
This my snippet alias hst="history 1 -1 | cut -c 8- | uniq | fzf ".
when I run hst
The output is
$ ~ hst
(the output from hst)
$
This is what I want
$ ~ hst
$ (the output from hst)
Example
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How to get 'man gfind' when I enter 'man find'?
On my new-ish mac os/Darwin system, my find tool is an 11-year-old BSD version. I have used MacPorts to install a more current version: GNU's find, which MacPorts has named gfind, and placed in /opt/...
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Usig zsh glob variable not expanding inside alias
I want to list and sort by time, all the files matching a certain pattern and then get only the first 20:
ls -laths *.txt | head -20
This works well, for example if I create two files:
touch 1.txt
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When does /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions get loaded?
As far as I can tell, my .zshrc doesn't manually source anything in /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions. If I try to write, in my .zshrc, an alias for a command that has completions set up in /usr/share/...
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Unable to iterate over files using ZSH alias [duplicate]
I have simple command to iterate JPG files
for f in *.JPG;do echo "Processing $f";done
The terminal output is as follows:
Processing IMG_0316.JPG
Processing IMG_0317.JPG
Processing IMG_0318....
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How can I know which are my most used aliases?
I would like to know which aliases I use most often, in both zsh and vim, so I can rename them to have more or fewer letters depending on the use. And also to remove aliases I never use, because I ...
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How can I get aliases and functions descriptions?
I use oh-my-zsh and I have many aliases and functions I can't remember, so I use alias ag="alias | grep" to find out what an alias does. I also use alias-tips. But instead of getting the ...
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Automatically source a file when `cd` into a specific directory
I have couple of utility commands-and-aliases that are generic enough in any directory for my own requirement. But there are certain directory e.g. 'build', where I need a custom behaviour.
To do this,...
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How to overwrite aliases in my shell (Oh My Zsh)?
I would like to alias my ls command, but there is a previously defined alias for it which I believe gets invoked first before my definition! I am using .zshrc to define my alias, and here is what I ...
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zsh alias not being unaliased in zshrc
[leading dots elided because I don't want to type them]
An alias--gl--is set to git pull by a plugin in my zshrc. I want to set it to a git log command.
I'm on macOS and, as expected, /etc/zshrc is ...
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create an alias on ZSH but need to type it twice
I'm trying to create an alias on ZSH.
The aim of the alias is to activate a python virtualenv.
I've put a line in my .zshrc
alias SOU="source /home/andykw/.zshrc && source $(setopt ...
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