OP, if you want to watch the video once then scrap it, why not just mpv "$(wl-paste)"

fmux. Create a tmux session using the fish shell

I am using Music Player Daemon, and I use the following script to turn gPodder into a client. My music is in ~/Music and I put the podcasts in ~/Music/Podcasts. The script works for both streaming or downloaded podcasts.

[~]$ cat bin/mpcut.sh
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$(echo "$1" | cut -b-4)" = "http" ]; then
    /usr/bin/mpc pause
    /usr/bin/mpc insert "$1"
    /usr/bin/mpc toggle
    /usr/bin/notify-send -i gpodder "$1 inserted to next spot in playlist."
else
    /usr/bin/mpc pause
    /usr/bin/mpc add "Podcasts/$(echo "$1" | cut -d"/" -f6-)"
    /usr/bin/mpc toggle
    /usr/bin/notify-send -i gpodder "$(echo "$1" | cut -d"/" -f7-)" "added to end of playlist."
fi

Audio Player in gPodder preferences is set to this: /home/christopher/bin/mpcut.sh %F

I have an application shortcut Super-G set to this in xfce4-keyboard-settings: env GTK_THEME=Adwaita-dark GPODDER_HOME=/home/christopher/.config/gPodder/ GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/home/christopher/Music/Podcasts/ /usr/bin/gpodder

or you could use an alias: alias gpodder='GTK_THEME=Adwaita-dark GPODDER_HOME=/home/christopher/.config/gPodder/ GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/home/christopher/Music/Podcasts/ /usr/bin/gpodder --verbose'

mkcd

mkdir and cd into it.

in my .gitconfig i have

[alias]
	glg = log --oneline --decorate --all --graph

This allows me to get a quick overview over all branches with pushes that are recent enough for most cases.

alias ser=‘pacman -Ss’
alias ins=‘sudo pacman -S’
alias rem=‘sudo pacman -Rncs’
alias upd=‘sudo pacman -Syu’

alias q=‘quit’
alias cl=‘clear’

alias p=‘systemctl poweroff’
alias r=‘systemctl reboot’

alias ban_me_discord_i_dare_you 'sh -c "$(curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Vendicated/VencordInstaller/main/install.sh)"'

for when discord pushes a new update

alias zipcat='gunzip -c'
alias untar='tar -xzvf'
alias ping='ping -c3'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
alias ....='cd ../../..'

This is dumb lol but

update = “sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade”

Exchange apt for whatever package manager you use, optionally add “&& flatpak upgrade”. If you really want to live on the edge throw a -y in there as well

Here’s one used daily:

connect ‘192.168.15.20:23 /nossh /T=1’
timeout=30
wait ‘username:’
sendln ‘admin’
wait ‘password:’
sendln ‘hunter2’
wait ‘DSPXmini>’
sendln ‘set dspx.enum.0 digital_audio’
wait ‘digital_audio’
if result=0 goto Error
if result=1 goto Success

:Error
messagebox ‘Something went wrong. Please call Xxxxx on xxxxxxxxxx for help.’ ‘Bugger.’
goto End

:Success
messagebox ‘Done :-) Studio B is now ISOLATED from the transmitter. You can now play around in Studio B without affecting what is going to air.’ ‘Studio B Isolated.’
messagebox ‘Please keep your speaker volume low if someone is broacasting from Studio A at the moment. The walls are thin.’ ‘Thin Wall Reminder…’

:End
disconnect 0

It already comes with many distros and I can’t live without ll="ls -la"

It’s not terribly exciting but I find myself using this a lot:

#!/bin/sh

echo "$*" | sed -e "s/x/*/g" | bc -l

Just a little shorthand for bc that allows me to write “x” instead of “*” to avoid shell expansion nonsense. I put it in ~/.local/bin/= so I can e.g. just write = 17+4x5. Combined with a Quake-style terminal this is much faster than launching a calculator app. It’s a script instead of an alias so it works regardless of the shell I’m currently using.

The call to bc -l could be replaced with one to qalc -t if you know qalc to be present on the system .

Wouldn’t say I use it often, but this thing resolves a domain name to an IP address:

function resolve() {
  case $1 in
    -4)
      getent ahostsv4 $2 | grep STREAM | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1
      ;;
    -6)
      getent ahostsv6 $2 | grep STREAM | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1
      ;;
    -p)
      getent hosts $2 | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1
      ;;
    *)
      getent ahosts $1 | grep STREAM | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort -u      
      ;;
  esac
}

All my aliases are just default arguments for programs or shorthands for my other scripts, most of which are specific for my setup.

This is a very good argument for ffmpeg and ffprobe, by the way:

alias ffmpeg="ffmpeg -hide_banner"
alias ffprobe="ffprobe -hide_banner"

#!/bin/bash # Recursively rename everything in the current directory as necessary # to make it match the case of filenames in Skyrim’s “Data” directory,

from=`pwd -P`
to="${HOME}/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Skyrim_1.5.97/Data"
tmp="/tmp/skydata_index"
filez="/tmp/skydata_from"

IFS='
'

match_case() {
    cd "$2"
    find . | grep -v '^[.]$' > "$tmp"
    cd "$1"
    find . -maxdepth 1 | grep -v '^[.]$' > "$filez"
    for j in `cat $filez`; do
        if ( grep -i "^${j}$" $tmp ); then
            name=`grep -i "^${j}$" $tmp | head -1`
            if [ "${name}xx" != "${j}xx" ] ; then
                mv "$j" "$name"
            fi
        fi
    done

    # going recursiv
    find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -v '^[.]$' > "$filez"
    for j in `cat $filez`; do
        if ( test -d "${2}/${j}" ) ; then
            match_case "${1}/${j}" "${2}/${j}"
        fi
    done
}
match_case $from $to
rm $tmp $filez

https://gkak.la/shell-aliases

Not an alias, but expanding -h to --help has been very useful in cases where the program just prints “see --help for options” when you just use -h

I use glola from oh-my-zsh every day to see an overview of my projects

Ans ns/nss is very convenient to run one-off commands with software I don’t already have installed!

Oh and cdt = cd $(mktemp -d) is nice to have when you just need a temporary clean directory to do something quick