Linux @lemmy.ml macallik @kbin.social 1 yr. ago

SHARE WITH THE CLASS: What aliases are you using?

From bash to zsh and everywhere in between, show me yours and I'll show you mines. Inspire others or get some feedback.

Simply copy & paste the output of alias in your terminal or add some comments to explain things for others.

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For system updates:

[ -r /etc/os-release ] &amp;&amp; . /etc/os-release
case "$ID" in
  arch|archarm)
    if which paru > /dev/null 2>&amp;1; then
      alias updates='echo Using paru; paru'
    else
      alias updates='echo Using pacman; sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm'
    fi
    ;;
  debian|ubuntu)
    alias updates='echo Using apt dist-upgrade; sudo apt update &amp;&amp; sudo apt dist-upgrade -y'
    ;;
esac

I have a similar one but I did it this way:


function ins {
  PACKAGE="${1}"
  exists() {
    command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&amp;1
  }

  if exists dnf; then #Fedora
    sudo dnf update &amp;&amp; sudo dnf install -y $PACKAGE
  elif exists apt; then #Debian
    sudo apt update &amp;&amp; sudo apt install -y $PACKAGE
  elif exists apk; then #Alpine
    apk -U upgrade &amp;&amp; apk add $PACKAGE
  elif exists emerge; then #Gentoo
    sudo emerge $PACKAGE
  elif exists zypper; then #Suse
    sudo zypper ref &amp;&amp; sudo zypper install $PACKAGE
  elif exists pacman; then #Arch
    pacman -S $PACKAGE
  elif exists brew; then #MacOS
    brew install $PACKAGE
  else
    echo "Error can't install package $PACKAGE. No package manager is detected."
    exit 1;
  fi
}

Actually that’s the install one. Here’s the upgrade one:


function upg {
  exists() {
    command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&amp;1
  }

  if exists dnf; then #Fedora
    sudo dnf update &amp;&amp; sudo dnf -y upgrade &amp;&amp; sudo dnf -y autoremove
  elif exists apt; then #Debian
    sudo apt update &amp;&amp; sudo apt full-upgrade -y
  elif exists apk; then #Alpine
    apk -U upgrade
  elif exists emerge; then #Gentoo
    sudo emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --newuse @world &amp;&amp; sudo emerge --ask --verbose --depclean
  elif exists zypper; then #Suse
    sudo zypper ref &amp;&amp; sudo zypper update
  elif exists pacman; then #Arch
    pacman -Syu
  elif exists brew; then #MacOS
    brew update &amp;&amp; brew upgrade
  else
    echo "Error: cannot update packages. No package manager is detected."
    exit 1;
  fi

  if exists snap; then #Snaps
    sudo snap refresh
  fi
  if exists flatpak; then #Flatpak
    flatpak update -y
  fi
}

Very nice

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