Venice? Wow, that's actually kind of on-the-nose for a show of excessive wealth.

historywalksvenice.com/article…

TL;DR: Venice exists in its current form (canal city on an ever sinking atoll) not because of climate change, and not because of some fishing village put their backs into it for hundreds of years, but because of money. LOTS, and lots of money from a shipping/trade boom a very long time ago.

The fact that Bezos built his obscene wealth on shipping and international commerce, just makes this even more appropriate in a gross kind of way. Like he's deliberately connecting himself to Venice's history, and everything that implies.

Why did Venice get rich?

Venice was rich. The wealth came from long distance trade, which relied on the geographical position of Venice.

^{René Seindal (History Walks in Venice)}

Similar to yours OP I copy many URLs and then run my script that takes the number of URLs I copied eg 5,and downloads them with yt-dlp and GNU parallel to ~/Videos

I use CopyQ to hold the clipboard history.

alias rm='rm -i'
alias mkdir='mkdir -p'
alias podup='podman-compose down && podman-compose pull && podman-compose up -d'

function extract()
{
     if [ -f $1 ] ; then
         case $1 in
             *.tar.bz2)   tar xvjf $1     ;;
             *.tar.gz)    tar xvzf $1     ;;
             *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1      ;;
             *.rar)       unrar x $1      ;;
             *.gz)        gunzip $1       ;;
             *.tar)       tar xvf $1      ;;
             *.tbz2)      tar xvjf $1     ;;
             *.tgz)       tar xvzf $1     ;;
             *.zip)       unzip $1        ;;
             *.Z)         uncompress $1   ;;
             *.7z)        7z x $1         ;;
             *.xz)        unxz $1         ;;
             *)           echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via >extract<" ;;
         esac
     else
         echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
     fi
}

To answer your question realistically I did history | sed "s/.* //" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

which returned as first non standard command lr which from my grep lr ~/.bashrc is alias lr="ls -lrth"

it's somewhat vibe coded but the one i probably use the most is this one to swap between speakers and headset. the device name to look for is just put directly in there, it'd take some adjustment to run it on different machines. this is in my .bashrc:

switch sinks

toggle_audio() {
# Find headset sink ID dynamically
headset_id=$(pactl list sinks short | grep "Plantronics" | awk '{print $1}')

# Find speakers sink ID dynamically
speakers_id=$(pactl list sinks short | grep "pci-0000_05_00.6" | awk '{print $1}')

# Get current default sink
current_sink=$(pactl get-default-sink)

# Get current sink ID
current_id=$(pactl list sinks short | grep "$current_sink" | awk '{print $1}')

# Toggle between the two
if [ "$current_id" = "$headset_id" ]; then
pactl set-default-sink "$speakers_id"
echo "Switched to speakers (Sink $speakers_id)"
else
pactl set-default-sink "$headset_id"
echo "Switched to headset (Sink $headset_id)"
fi
}

generally i try not to use too many custom things because for work i regularly work on all kinds of different servers and i've just been too lazy to set up some solution to keep it all in sync. someday....

Because using docker can sometimes cause ownership issues if not properly configured in your docker-compose.yml, I just added an alias to ~/.zshrc to rectify that.

-edit-
Only run this script in your user owned directories, e.g. anything from ~/ (or /home/) you might otherwise cause ownership issues for your system.

## Set ownership of files/folders recursively to current user
alias iownyou="sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP"

I often want to know the status code of a curl request, but I don't want that extra information to mess with the response body that it prints to stdout.

What to do?

Render an image instead, of course!

curlcat takes the same params as curl, but it uses iTerm2's imgcat tool to draw an "HTTP Cat" of the status code.

It even sends the image to stderr instead of stdout, so you can still pipe curlcat to jq or something.

\#!/usr/bin/env zsh

stdoutfile=$( mktemp )
curl -sw "\n%{http_code}" $@ > $stdoutfile
exitcode=$?

if [[ $exitcode == 0 ]]; then
  statuscode=$( cat $stdoutfile | tail -1 )

  if [[ ! -f $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode ]]; then
    curl -so $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode https://http.cat/$statuscode
  fi

  imgcat $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode 1>&2
fi

cat $stdoutfile | ghead -n -1

exit $exitcode

alias clip='xclip -selection clipboard'

When you pipe to this, for example ls | clip, it will stick the output of the command ran into the clipboard without needing to manually copy the output.

github.com/pyr0ball/PRbL-bashr…

My own bash library, includes a self-installer and a nifty login banner

I replaced rm with trash-put, just in case I realize I need some files that I removed down the line.

alias rm='trash-put'

Also I like to alias xclip:

alias clippy='xclip -selection clipboard'

# cat things.txt | clippy

GitHub - astrand/xclip: Command line interface to the X11 clipboard

Command line interface to the X11 clipboard. Contribute to astrand/xclip development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

alias gl='git log'
alias server-name-here='ssh server-name-here'

I have a bunch of the server aliases. I use those and gl the most.

alias yt-dlp='/home/j/yt-dlp/yt-dlp'
alias nuget="mono /usr/local/bin/nuget.exe"

I looked through my bash history and it looks like I needed it to build an Xbox eeprom editor for Xemu. Xemu doesn't (or at least didn't, I haven't used newer versions yet) have a built in eeprom editor and editing the Xbox eeprom is required for enabling both wide screen and higher resolutions for the games that support them natively.

I just looked at Xemu's documentation, and it looks like they've added a link to an online eeprom editor, so the editor I used (which they do still link to) is no longer required.

git push origin `git branch --show`

I wrote a script called please. You input please followed by any other command (e.g. please git clone, please wget blahblah) and a robotic voice will say "affirmative," then the command will run, and when it completes, the robotic voice reads out the exit code (e.g. "completed successfully" or "failed with status 1" etc.)

This is useful for when you have a command that takes a long time and you want to be alerted when it's finished. And it's a gentleman.

ganis :

git add -A && sudo nixos-rebuild switch --impure - j$(nproc)

Everyone who uses nixos probably has a similar alias set x)

I usually set up an alias or script to update everything on my system. For example, on Ubuntu, I would do this: alias sysup='snap refresh && apt update && apt upgrade'

And on Arch, I do this: alias sysup ='flatpak update && paru'

Funny enough you'd need to use sudo to run this on Ubuntu, but not in the Arch example because paru being neat

alias nmtui="NEWT_COLORS='root=black,black;window=black,black;border=white,black;listbox=white,black;label=blue,black;checkbox=red,black;title=green,black;button=white,red;actsellistbox=white,red;actlistbox=white,gray;compactbutton=white,gray;actcheckbox=white,blue;entry=lightgray,black;textbox=blue,black' nmtui"

It's nmtui but pretty!

alias qr='qrencode -t ansiutf8'

This makes qr codes in the terminal.

needs the qrencode package

Example usage and output:
felix@buttsexmachine:~$ qr lemmy.fish █████████████████████████████ █████████████████████████████ ████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █▄ ██ █ ▄▄▄▄▄ ████ ████ █ █ █ █▄▀▄█ █ █ ████ ████ █▄▄▄█ █▄▄▄███ █▄▄▄█ ████ ████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄▀ █▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄████ ████▄▄▄ █▀▄▀▄▀ █▀▄▀▀ █ ████ ████▄ ▀▄▀▄▄ ▀▄▄█ ▄▄▄█▀█ ▄████ ██████▄███▄█▀█ ▄█▄ █▀█▀▄▄████ ████ ▄▄▄▄▄ ██ ▀▀▀▀▄ ▀█▀████ ████ █ █ █▀ ▀▄█▀▀▄▄ ▀█████ ████ █▄▄▄█ █ ▀█ ▀█▀ █▄▄█▀████ ████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄▄█▄▄▄███▄▄██████ █████████████████████████████ █████████████████████████████___

g=git
ga='git add'
gau='git add --update'
gcfu='git commit --fixup'
gc='git commit --verbose'
'gc!'='git commit --verbose --amend'
gcmsg='git commit --message'
gca='git com
gd='git diff'
gf='git fetch'
gl='git pull'
gst='git status'
gstall='git stash --all'
gstaa='git stash apply'
gp='git push'
'gpf!'='git push --force-with-lease'
grb='git rebase'
grba='git rebase --abort'
grbc='git rebase --continue'

ls='eza'
md='mkdir -p'
mcd() { mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1" }

b='nix build'
bf='nix build -f'
bb=nix build -f .'
s='nix shell'
sf='nix shell -f'
snp='nix shell np#'
d='nix develop'
df='nix develop -f'

Hey OP, consider using $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR instead of /tmp. It's now the more proper place for these kinds of things to avoid permission issues, although I'm sure you're on a single user system like most people. I have clipboard actions set to download with yt-dlp 😀

My favorite aliases are:

alias dff='findmnt -D -t nosquashfs,notmpfs,nodevtmpfs,nofuse.portal,nocifs,nofuse.kio-fuse'

alias lt='ls -t | less'