Terminal Shortcuts

[trawglodyte]

You can add this code to ~/.bashrc to give yourself shortcuts for common terminal commands. (you will have to reboot after saving ~/.bashrc with the added code). Rather than entering <sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade>, you will now be able to enter <uu>. Rather than entering <sudo remove google-chome-stable>, you can now enter <r google-chrome-stable>. etc...

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# terminal shortcuts
alias u='sudo nala update'
alias uu='sudo nala update && sudo nala upgrade'
alias i='sudo nala install'
alias p='sudo nala purge'
alias r='sudo nala remove'
alias a='sudo nala autoremove'
alias s='nala search'
alias d='nala show'
alias n='sudo nano'
alias m='man -Hfirefox'

!!CAUTION- You should enter each of the shortcuts in terminal first to make sure no command already exists on your machine using those characters. !!

notes - <nala> does the same thing as <apt>, it just displays the output nicer. You may have to install it if you don't have it. <sudo apt install nala>. Alternatively, just replace <nala> with <apt> in the code. apt is a bit quicker and nala does not do full-upgrade or dist-upgrade.
notes - You may need to install troffcvt for the 'm' shortcut to work. <sudo apt install troffcvt> It causes the man to open in your browser of choice (i.e.- <m conky> will open the conky man in firefox browser). You can replace 'man -Hfirefox' with 'man -Hopera', 'man -Hgoogle-chrome-stable' or whatever browser you want the man to open in.

[siamhie]

The Bash Config program also allows you to add aliases without the need to edit .bashrc files.

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[trawglodyte]

The Bash Config program also allows you to add aliases without the need to edit .bashrc files.

smh, every time I learn something cool, MX Linux is way ahead of me!! Yes, the GUI to add aliases is WhiskerMenu>System>Bash_Config.

[siamhie]

The Bash Config program also allows you to add aliases without the need to edit .bashrc files.

smh, every time I learn something cool, MX Linux is way ahead of me!! Yes, the GUI to add aliases is WhiskerMenu>System>Bash_Config.

The devs come up with some very useful scripts/programs to make setting up your desktop much easier.
The Bash Config program was written by dolphin_oracle.

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He also wrote a script and added it to MX Tweak for the fluxbox users who want to setup a timed screensaver
without having to open a terminal and type a bunch of xset commands.

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