Anyone else adding "verbose", "interactive" and "recursive" to basic file commands?
As a person raised by GUIs, an extra visual confirmation and an extra prompt is a nice touch. I also like when the system says “Oh, is that a directory? No problem, I’ll give you the usual treatment.” You know what I mean?
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<span style="color:#323232;">alias ls='ls --group-directories-first --color=auto -w 120'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ll='exa --group-directories-first -l'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias la='ll -a'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias lt='ll --tree'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias cp='cp --recursive --interactive --verbose --reflink=always'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias mv='mv --interactive --verbose'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># custom pwd
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># - replace $HOME with ~
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># - make everything before the last '/' green, and everything after white and bold
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># - alias to p
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias pwd="pwd | sed 's:$HOME:~:' | sed -E 's:(.*/)([^/]+):x1b[32m1x1b[0mx1b[1m2x1b[0m:'"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias p="pwd"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># custom cd.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># - prints the new directory after cd'ing.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cd () {
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> command cd "$@" && p;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias c="cd"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias '..'='c ..'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias '...'='c ../..'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># For the '~' alias, we want to use the original cd because printing '~'
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># again would be redundant.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias '~'='command cd'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># custom rm.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># adds a '-r' flag only if there is a single argument and that argument
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># is a directory.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># This is because I want the behavior of -I (interactive) to be the default,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># but I also want to have the -r flag available when I need it without being
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># prompted for single files.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">function rm () {
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> if [ $# -eq 1 ] && [ -d "$1" ]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> rm --verbose --interactive=once --recursive "$1";
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> else
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> rm --verbose --interactive=once "$@";
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> fi;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># mkdir + cd (created as a function because they run on the current shell,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># which is what we want for cd)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">mc () {
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> mkdir -p -- "$1" && cd -P -- "$1";
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>
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