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Automatically put an alias into ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc [duplicate]
Is there a command line util/script that automatically saves aliases? E.g.
save-alias my-ip="curl ipecho.net/plain"
and that will define an alias, then add/update it in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
I was ...
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Resolve all aliases in a zsh command line
I have nested aliases and I want to resolve all of them before executing the command. How do I do that?
If there is a function that is not bound to any keys then M-x foobar is fine for me too. I ...
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alias vs export for simple commands
For simple commands like less, is it better to make an alias or to export the options? Is there any benefit of one over the other?
For example, if I want less to always use the -R option to show raw ...
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How can I "stack" shell aliases?
In my .profile (sourced in sh emulation mode from my .zshrc) I have the following snippet:
if [ -f /usr/bin/pacmatic ]; then
alias pacman=pacmatic
fi
# Colorized Pacman output
alias pacman="...
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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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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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zsh alias being overridden somehow
I'm on a system running OS X 10.8.5.
I recently tried to alias ls to ls -G -la command. I opened up ~/.zshrc, put in the alias, relaunched the terminal, but the change didn't take effect. Upon ...
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Is it possible to include file in config file of zsh? How?
I'd like to have a file eg. f with only zsh aliases (pureness reasons). Then I'd like to include f file in my .zshrc file, so that the aliases defined in f are visible in .zshrc.
Is it possible?
If ...
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Executing zsh rehash after build
I have a build script that can change what binaries are in my $PATH (it doesn't edit $PATH itself, but it adds/deletes files to folders that are already in $PATH). zsh's autocompletion doesn't update ...
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Zsh - alias -s with parameter
In zsh, I can specify default program to open which file extension like alias -s {mkv,mpg}='mplayer' . I runs fine but what I really want is to run mplayer <filename> & so it won't produce ...
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Difference between alias in zsh and alias in bash
I have searched around but could not find anything conclusive. Is there a difference between the alias command in zsh and the alias command in bash? If not, does it mean I can share a set of aliases ...
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How to reset a shell environment?
This issue has been bugging me for a while, and although I've thought I've found my answer through EnvWatcher, unfortunately it only works on Bash. And I use zsh.
I would like to replicate the things ...
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How to use `which` on an aliased command?
Like most users, I have a bunch of aliases set up to give a default set of flags for frequently used programs. For instance,
alias vim='vim -X'
alias grep='grep -E'
alias ls='ls -G'
The problem is ...
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Escaping quotes in zsh alias
Following on from this question about stripping newlines out of text, I want to turn this into a zsh alias as follows:
alias striplines=' awk " /^$/ {print \"\n\"; } /./ {printf( \" %s \",$0);}"'
I'...
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zsh alias expansion
Is it possible to configure zsh to expand global aliases during tab completion? For example, I have the common aliases:
alias -g '...'='../..'
alias -g '....'='../../..'
but when I type for example ...
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Share aliases and PATH setting between zsh and bash
The shell that I normally use is zsh. I have several aliases to enable color in some programs such as ls and grep. I've also set my custom path so that I can execute programs in non-standard place (...
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