Ode to the Shell (Was: Re: which file manager you use?)

[Charles Howse]

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On Thursday 05 February 2004 02:03 pm, Gerrit wrote:
> Colin Charles wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 02:41, Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> > > Why do you use xterms?
> > > How?
> > > Any specific tips or tricks you'd like to share?
> >
> > Good 'ole ls, cp, mv.
>
> alias!!
>
> 20:55:04:2544:gerrit at topjaklont:~$ alias
> alias cat='cat --show-nonprinting'
> alias cc='gcc'
> alias cdda2wav='cdda2wav -Icooked_ioctl -D/dev/cdrom'
> alias df='df -h'
> alias gcc='gcc -pipe -ansi -Wall -g -pedantic'
> alias grep='grep --extended-regexp'
> alias h='history'
> alias humbolt='slogin humbolt.nl.linux.org'
> alias l='ls --format=long'
> alias less='less --long-prompt --raw-control-chars'
> alias ll='LANG='\''nl_NL'\'' l --full-time --almost-all --reverse
> --sort=time --time-style='\''+%9A %d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S'\''' alias lpr='lpr -l'
> alias ls='ls --classify --color=always --human-readable'
> alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh'
> alias optiplex='slogin node17454.a2000.nl'
> alias pt='pstree -h -l -p -u'
> alias sourceforge='slogin shell.sourceforge.net'
> alias su='su --login'
> alias tree='tree -F -C -A'
> alias vi='vim'
> alias ytalk='ytalk -x'
>
> Best tool ever invented.
> And how would you do THIS in your favourite file manager:
> $ sb_mboxtrain.py -g ./ham -s ./spam && cat spam ham | formail -s procmail
> && rm ham spam && mv unsure aaa && formail -s procmail < aaa && rm aaa #
> train ham and spam and then reclassify all unsures $ for f in *.gz; do
> setfont $f; echo $f; python -c 'for i in range(128, 256): print i,
> chr(i),'; sleep 2; done # try to see how 8-bit characters look in all fonts
> $ cat .bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | grep topjaklont # find the
> most frequent used command with 'topjaklont' in it $ zcat homepage.log.gz |
> cut -d' ' -f7 -s | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | grep
> '/~gerrit/asperger/asperger-[0-9]\.html' | awk '{print $2, $1}' | sed -e
> 's/\/\~gerrit\/asperger\/asperger-/H/g' | sed -e 's/\.html//g' |
> /usr/local/bin/piechart -T png > homepage/stats/hoofdstuk.png # My
> favourite... create a pie-chart of the hits of the chapters of an article
> I've written ...and so on and so forth
>
> $ h | tail -1000 | sed -e 's/^ *[0-9]* *//g' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n |
> tail 13 python
>      18 su -
>      23 ls
>      25 gomail
>      26 mutt -f python-list\@python.org
>      29 mutt -f gerrit\@nl.linux.org
>      30 l
>      34 mutt -f unsure
>      50 mutt -f fedora-list\@redhat.com
>     210 ll
>
> Heh heh :-)
>
> Actually, the shell was one the main reasons for me to switch to Linux.

In what file are the default aliases kept?

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Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Fedora Core 1 Uptime:  4:57
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