Aliases

Quick and dirty collection of useful aliases for bash

Edit ~/.bash_aliases

# aliases

# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then
    eval "`dircolors -b`"
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
    #alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
    #alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
fi

# some more ls aliases
alias l='ls -CF'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias llh='ls -lh'
alias la='ls -A'
#saves time on mistakes
alias sl='ls'

#standard iso date formats
alias dt="date +'%Y-%m-%d'"
alias tm="date +'%H:%M:%S'"
alias dts="date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S'"

#shorts for apt-get
alias apt='sudo apt-get install '
alias purge='sudo apt-get remove --purge '