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How to declare some aliases dynamically in zsh?
I would like to declare a few shortcut commands to switch between my various coding projects, so I have come up with the following script.
projects=$(ls -d ~/Workspace/*/)
prefix="/Users/myuser/...
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How can I alias a history expansion in zsh?
I want this to work (it needs extendedglob and histsubstpattern):
alias ri='^(#b)E(?)^E${(l:2::0:)$((match[1]+1))}'
But it doesn't:
$ alias sss='^(#b)E(?)^E${(l:2::0:)$((match[1]+1))}' ...
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Tab complete global alias names not at the beginning of a line
I have a bunch of aliases like this
alias -g foo=cmd1
alias -g faz=cmd2
alias -g fam=cmd3
At the shell (I'm using zsh) I want to be able to type
echo fa<TAB>
and be prompted for faz or fam
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How to create an alias for two Git commands that use a parameter? [duplicate]
I regularly have to delete a local and remote Git branch. Therefore, I run the following commands:
$ git branch -d feature-branch
$ git push --delete origin feature-branch
Since I mostly execute ...
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How to create hyphen alias for zsh?
I am using zsh and oh-my-zsh on Ubuntu.
To change into the recent directory in the past there was an alias set to - which is the same as cd -. Somehow the alias disappeared at my machine. This might ...
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Making an alias which maps arguments to the middle of the command
I want to alias killapp X to pidof X | xargs kill or kill `pidof X`, but I can't think of a way to do this with just an alias on killapp. How could I do this so I don't have to do killapp X` ?
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Using heredoc in zsh aliases
I would like to use heredoc in a zsh alias, for example:
alias runthing="cd ~; date << HERE
date
HERE"
However every time I run this alias, the shell acts as if I have not terminated the ...
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How to alias a command with '
I wanted to make an alias turn caps lock off:
python -c 'from ctypes import *; X11 = cdll.LoadLibrary("libX11.so.6"); display = X11.XOpenDisplay(None); X11.XkbLockModifiers(display, c_uint(0x0100), ...
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How to create an alias that launches zathura with tabbed
So tabbed outputs it's xid when you run it. How could I put this into an alias dynamically?
I'm looking to do something like:
alias zathura = tabbed -c zathura -e ${tabbed Xid goes here} & disown
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How to pipe into zsh with alias expansion?
I'm trying to run a line from history by piping it into zsh with:
cat ~/.zsh_history | cut -d ';' -f 2 | sk --tac | zsh
This works if the line I pick interactively with sk is a command that is ...
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How can I use !! in zsh alias
I am trying to create an alias that builds upon my previous command.
Say I run
ag foo
After looking at the list I want to be able to use those results in vim so I do
vim -q<(!! --vimgrep)
The ...
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On using $hash_array[$(global_alias)]
Identical code works on one system, fails on another:
% zsh --version
zsh 5.0.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
% typeset -A frobozz
% alias -g foo='echo xyz'
% frobozz[$(foo)]=9
% echo ${(kv)frobozz}
xyz 9
% ...
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How to add an alias for 'git add **/'
I can't seem to add an alias for git add **/
I think those two asterisks is causing an issue, or it could be that forward slash. How do I solve this?
So far I have tried
alias ga='git add **/'
When ...
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Alias piping into awk
I am trying to create an ll with awk pipe alias. I am trying to escape the apostrophes using the following answers.
alias lh= `ll -h | awk {'print $9, \"-\" ,$5, \"-\", $8, \"...
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zsh alias with arguements
I have an alias for neovim-qt thus defined:
gvim='nvim-qt --geometry 500x320 --'
This allows me to call gvim foo.py ook.py and have a QT window running neovim with two tabs, one for each file.
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