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    Installing is easy just add:

    alias updog="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y"

    to your .bashrc or .zshrc

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    [–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    This would go perfectly with the alias I did because I kept forgetting the original command:

    $ alias whats=type
    $ whats updog
    updog is aliased to 'sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y'
    
    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    It's all coming together now!

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is this a meme I'm too crontab to understand?

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    So you mean "what's updog" hahhahahha

    [–] pastermil 7 points 1 year ago

    Don't be such a chrony. I'm sure you'll be in symc sooner or later.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Someone wrote about there being a cat and a bat command in linux (plus another animal name I forgot), but no dog command. Someone commented that there's updog.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    TIL about aliases in GNU/Linux

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

    Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Or as I've recently taken to calling it Arch + Linux

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You mean Arch + GNU + Linux, I hope.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    No, Richard, it's Arch + GNU + Linux - GNU because I stripped it of all GNU utils and replaced them with ~~cuck~~ BaSeD licensed software to spite those so called "enlightened" free software advocates.
    Ha! What are you gonna do about it? Make GCC 2? No? Didn't think so (๑•ᴗ•๑)

    and just like that, with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    I mean Arch + GNU + Linux + systemd

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I love the fact that stallman adressed this copypasta on the GNU website.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Yep and he pretty much doubled down if I remember correctly. He must really hate the fact that everyone calls it "Linux".

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

    alias yay="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y"

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Wait until you see the one I showed off the other day: alias gl='git log --graph --abbrev-commit --no-decorate --date=format:'\''%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'\'' --format=format:'\''%C(8)%>|(16)%h %C(7)%ad %C(8)%<(16,trunc)%an %C(auto)%d %>|(1)%s'\'' --all'

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    I present my ll: exa --all --long --header --group --time-style=long-iso --group-directories-first --git.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    These are my aliases:

    alias dog=cat
    

    And this one really improves my performance:

    alias got=git
    
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Not much, hbu?

    [–] ThrowawayPermanente 4 points 1 year ago

    Not much, what's up with you?

    [–] jxk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] wtvr 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Forces "yes" so you don't get the "continue?" prompt after hitting enter

    [–] jxk 1 points 1 year ago

    I see. For some reason my apt manpage don't list it, but my apt-get manpage does.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Isn’t “dist-upgrade” a better practice, particularly when using the “-y” argument?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Wait.. what? I didn't even consider this could be an option. Is anyone willing to point me at some accurate information about how to get started? Like.. where do I put a bash file, and how is it structured? How can I automate it? So many questions. I'm only sort of familiar with bash, as in I've seen the term and watched my coworker do some wizardry once.

    [–] ChickenAndRice 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I think this is an easier way to do it:

    add this to a file called .bash_aliases instead (it should be a file right next to .bashrc, if not just create it)

    You can add aliases to .bashrc with this, but I personally perfer to have aliases in their own file

    Another thing, if you have a console window open while adding it, restart it so that the console is aware of the aliases. Alternatively, google something like "sourcing bashrc" or "sourcing aliases" and apply the commands you find

    If you wish to add aliases to a bash script (for later automation), you add these two lines

    shopt -s expand_aliases

    source ~/.bash_aliases

    but of course add this to the top of your bash scripts, so that your script knows to use the bash shell:

    #!/bin/bash

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    This is so great. Thank you.

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