Comments on: Some bash aliases to speed up daily tasks

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:25:16 +0000

BTW ‘python -m SimpleHTTPServer’ is a shorter equivalent spelling of ‘python -c “import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()”‘.

By: Eric Day

Eric Day — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:56:21 +0000

As a general security rule, you usually want to disable remote root login. I’d suggest adding:

PermitRootLogin no

To your sshd_config and restart sshd while we’re editing files.

Also, if you’re a tcsh user (yes, we still exist!), play with the ‘complete’ command:

complete ssh ‘p/1/(eday@host1.com someone@somewhere.com kitchensink.com)/’
complete cd ‘p/1/d/’

This allows you to program your own TAB auto-complete options (instead of normal files). The cd example will only auto-complete with directory entries (hence the d). The ssh one:

ssh e

would auto-complete to

ssh eday@host1.com

I’m guessing there is some bash equivalent but I’ve not checked.

By: Noob

Noob — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:31:29 +0000

Hi, can you explain what are these for exactly to the novices?Is it about optimization or else?Thanks in advance.

By: Nick Presta

Nick Presta — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:29:15 +0000

Here are a couple more I use:

alias ls=’ls –color -F’
alias rm=’rm -i’ # personal preference, I suppose.
alias grep=’grep –color=tty -d skip’
alias egrep=’egrep –color=tty -d skip’
alias fgrep=’fgrep –color=tty -d skip’

Good tips, thanks!

By: sapphirecat

sapphirecat — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:48:11 +0000

My ~/.ssh/config file looks a lot like so:

Host foo
HostName foo.bar.com

Host baz
HostName 192.168.0.1

Host *
Protocol 2
….

Then I can use “foo” or “baz” as hostnames in ssh/scp without needing to come up with any cleverly named aliases.