(Bash-Specific)

App-Specific

alias battery='upower -i $(upower -e | grep 'BAT') | grep -E "state|to\ full|percentage"' # Get the battery level of my laptop server when I ssh into it

alias audio="yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3" # Download the audio version of a youtube video

alias wttr="curl wttr.in/Chicago" # Get the weather of my city in the terminal

Terminal Navigation

alias ba2sy="cp ~/.bash_aliases ~/Sync/" # copy my current iteration of my aliases to my shared syncthing folder so that it's accessible across devices

alias sy2ba="cp ~/Sync/.bash_aliases ~/" # replace the current iteration of my aliases w/ the synced version from my syncthing folder

alias mba='micro .bash_aliases' # open my aliases file in the modernized version of 'nano'

alias reload="source ~/.bashrc" # Quickly refresh my system so that the latest alias file is loaded

alias l='exa --group-directories-first -hlras modified --no-user --icons' # exa is a prettier version of ls. Options toggled: Human-readable, long format, reverse output, show hidden files/folders, sort by modified, hide the 'user' column since I'm the only one that uses the computer, and show the icons to make it look fancy```

Replaced Commands

alias cat='batcat --theme=ansi ' # Replace generic output of cat w/ a formatted version. This is bat (batcat in Debian)

alias rm='trash ' # Instead of auto-deleting files, put them in the 'trash' bin for 30 days, then delete.

Server & Docker-related

alias lazy='/home/macallik/.local/bin/lazydocker' # Run Docker

alias pad='ssh MyPad20334' # shorthand to ssh into my server