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Alias.sh: for finding, sharing and storing bash aliases
- peter_l_downs 14y agoThis looks great! The 'freq' alias is new to me -- very cool. I would find this more useful were I not to have to create an account before uploading my aliases.
- trampy9010 14y agoYeah, sorting your bash history helps highlight what you spend most of your time doing and if that can be cut down at all.
- brianberns 14y agoGray text on a gray background. No thanks.
- mambodog 14y agoSome mates of mine threw this together, and the first thing I told them was that someone on HN would complain about the colour scheme
- benjy14 14y agoWe have a user voice account, we're posting on here looking for some useful feedback.
- reddiculon 14y agoLink for the lazy: https://alias.uservoice.com/ https://alias.uservoice.com/
- brightghost 14y agoI'm guessing you changed it since this feedback, but I really like the current color scheme. The lighter-grey bubbles around the actual code do a nice job directing focus to the important bits.
- benjy1 14y agoIt was a very subtle change but yeah we lightened it up a bit after the feedback from this thread. We made quite a few changes actually and summarised them here: http://alias.sh/thank-you-hacker-news-community http://alias.sh/thank-you-hacker-news-community
- Ambadassor 14y agoI was instinctively looking for a modal window to close to make the colors vibrant again. It's a somewhat jarring experience.
- danielhunt 14y agoA very easy to read grey on a very nice grey background. Yes please.
- arcatek 14y agoCommand line fu (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse) already contains a pretty big collection of useful shell snippets, I'm not sure that making another website will help. [edit] However, I have to admit that I prefer your design. :)
- sam152 14y agoThis is a great site. I might post a few on alias.sh. A lot of them however are just cool commands you can run, not commands that are packaged into an alias.
- vincentkriek 14y agoIsn't an alias just a cool command with a shortcut? I agree that on the site it's just `command` and not `alias short_cmd=command`, but the idea is the same.
- benjy14 14y agoOne of the advantages of this site is that you can build a list of your aliases and then there are snippets that are provided to copy and source them into your bash aliases file. I guess the advantage is it allows you to a build a list on your own profile and easily sync them across machines. Does this site achieve that?
- nsmartt 14y agoAn alias is the sort of command you use often, or an interesting new way of using a command you use often (e.g. ls). That's the difference.
- mambodog 14y agoOne thing that isn't really highlighted as much as it should be is that you can directly grab or source your opted-in aliases, eg. wget -q -O - "$@" https://alias.sh/user/[userid]/alias >> ~/.bash_aliases or, if you like to live dangerously: source <(wget -q -O - "$@" https://alias.sh/user/[userid]/alias)
- jogloran 14y agoOne of the sort criteria is "highested voted".
- sam152 14y agoGood catch, fixed.
- reddiculon 14y agoI'm sure you mean "fixded" ;)
- cdcarter 14y agoA search function would be great, showing just the popular tags makes it hard to find new tricks.
- reddiculon 14y agoI agree; that and being able to tag and comment on aliases. Some way of posting alternatives for the same task would be great too.
- benjy1 14y agoComments already exist. You can comment while logged in and viewing an alias. You can use them to post alternatives for now. This is something that will be considered as a new feature though in our next sprint.
- roevhat 14y agoI don't know if it is my browser, but to me I get the feeling the site is disabled, with the very darkend colors. It's almost as if a modal is showing, and the rest of the page is faded out - but I can't see no modal. Just my first impressions. But other than that: Really cool - going straight to the bookmarks!
- decad 14y agoHad the exact same reaction when I first opened the site, thought my eyes had gone funny.
- sleepyscene 14y agoHey guys, thanks for the feedback. I did the design for the site. Tonight I'm planning on bumping up the contrast and it seems calibrating my monitor also ;)
- kawsper 14y agoThis is a little dumb alias process='ps -ax' :)
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- thomseddon 14y agoHeart almost skipped a beat when first glanced at the welcome email, last two lines: username: thomseddon password: Your password With the actual text "Your password", Phew!! Not quite sure it's necessary to include this line, for the sake of your users cardiovascular health you may wish to consider removing it! (Oh, do really like this site, started using it already as you can see!)
- CJefferson 14y agoThis website is quite fun, except it has (for me) one fatal flaw - if I use the automated stuff I am stuck with whatever name someone else decided to give the alias. For example, http://alias.sh/open-any-file-default-command-file http://alias.sh/open-any-file-default-command-file I find so useful I shorted the alias to 'o'. Now, I could make another alias with a different name, but that seems like a bad idea..
- benjy1 14y agoNope feel free to create another alias. Aliases can be voted up or down so eventually over time the best ones will rise to the top. Also if you want it on your profile just add it. We did think about this and plan on adding private aliases soon so you can add them without cluttering the site or if you just don't want to share. :)
- ralph 14y agoI eschew aliases, using them only when necessary, e.g. when changing directory. There's many places in Unix where a knowledgeable user can kick off a command and in many aliases won't work. This gets annoying and is solved by having ~/bin/... wherever possible. The overhead is minimal, many being one-line of code starting with exec.
- jackalope 14y agoI use aliases to open frequently used programs with specific configuration files (mutt, for example, to manage multiple email accounts) or with long complex arguments (rdesktop, for example, for connections to multiple hosts). I also use ~/bin/ when I want something in my path that has a purpose local to me, but can be widely deployed to the various platforms I work on. But for one-liners that don't work as aliases (used too infrequently or not portable) I use Makefiles. It's nice to be able to cd into a working directory and type 'make update' on any machine without trying to remember which package manager to use and how to invoke it.
- telemachos 14y agoA promising start. But it would really help if it were possible to edit aliases you've posted. (For example, I want to clean up the tags for something I posted, but that doesn't seem possible.)
- benjy1 14y agoEditing aliases could cause a security issue. Eg if someone is using your alias and you edited it to be malicious. We're planning on having private aliases which will be editable. If you have a alias you want editing then send us an email from your email on your account and I can help you fix it up. admin at alias dot sh
- glazskunrukitis 14y agoFirst time I visited the website I was waiting for a popup to show up because the page seemed to have an overlay. Turns out that's the color scheme.
- af3 14y ago"VC thinks I need an app for my tits" (probably not a direct quote).
- gelstudios 14y agoI like this, but I think the author or contributor of the alias should be made public (like next to the vote/score buttons)
- benjy1 14y agoGood suggestion. I just added it to the full page view and will consider adding it throughout the site in the next sprint.
- l-p 14y agoTop two are wrong… Not a good thing. It's always the same badly written snippets that get copy-pasted across websites without anyone really understanding what it does (hence the copy/paste). > alias servethis="python -c 'import SimpleHTTPServer; SimpleHTTPServer.test()'" python -m SimpleHTTPServer # python 3 python -m http.server # Python 3 > extract () { /* useless stuff */ } tar xf
- benjy1 14y agoWe only launched this morning so they're all very new. We do have a voting feature on the full page view so we're hoping the poorer aliases sink over time. We also intend to make the voting more prominent.
- dschep 14y agoI think you mean Python 2 for the SimpleHTTPServer example.
- benjy1 14y agopython one works fine for me. I tried tar xf on a zip file and it didn't work?
- qu4z-2 14y agotar xf doesn't work on zip, rar, 7z, or plain compressed files (ie log.gz instead of log.tar.gz) Additionally I prefer "verb noun" form over "program noun", so I like extract. I already alias open=xdg-open (so I can type "open somefile.pdf" or "open somefile.doc", etc)
- Despite 14y agoThere are versions of tar (that I have to use) which don't autodetect the compression type. And that alias includes non-tar filetypes.
- larelli 14y agoI really like the idea, but I'd do even more so if I could install a cronjob to automatically download a file with all aliases I previously added to my online profile. Of course this comes with security implications you'd have to sort out. Please do this (or let me help you with it). Edit: I just found the feature on the site and am happy now. (:
- benjy1 14y agoYou can use the second command on your profile page. source <(wget -q -O - "$@" https://alias.sh/user/7/alias https://alias.sh/user/7/alias) This will source it every time you login. Otherwise you could easily put the first command on your profile in a cronjob to run one daily etc.
- RusAlex 14y agoKeep your bash aliases at github public repository or anywhere in a private repository. it's more easy to do git pull mydotfiles.git rather than using copy pasting from any web resource.
- subsection1h 14y agoNice site! Consider using the site's name consistently. The logo is "alias", the home page refers to "Alias.sh", and the About page refers to "alias.sh".
- benjy1 14y agoGood suggestion, it's definitely something we are on the fence about. I think "Alias" is better but it also made some of the copy sound a little confusing.