7 Aliases That Make The Terminal Great Again

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The episode discusses seven essential shell aliases to enhance the terminal experience.

These seven shells aliases are practically required if you don't want your terminal experience to suck. alias ls='ls -lah --color=always --group-directories-first' alias rm=' rm -I --preserve-root' alias cp='cp -i' alias mv='mv -i' alias mkdir='mkdir -p' alias ping='ping -c 5' alias update='sudo pacman -Syu' (or whatever your distro uses!) WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? 💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube 💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW 🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi 👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube DT ON THE WEB: 🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube 📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1 🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube 👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/ 📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2 FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE: 🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/ 📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/ 🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org 🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/ 💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/ 🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs Your support is very…

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Topics covered

• terminal aliases
• Linux
• shell commands
• productivity
• open source

Keywords

• terminal
• aliases
• Linux commands
• productivity
• open source software

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Products: Brave Browser, Open Broadcaster Software, Kdenlive, GIMP, VirtualBox, Doom Emacs

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