My Bash Aliases

to edit bash, must be in /home

nano .bashrc

to load new edits into bash

source .bashrc

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clear screen, windows command

alias cls='clear'

put the apt update and upgrade in one command, creates a dated log file

alias update='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y 2>&1 | tee ~/.loggy/"$(date +%F-%S)-upgrade.log" '

search apt for packages

alias pksearch='sudo apt search'

typical cleanup commands

alias cleanup='sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt clean'

automatically set to resume partially downloaded file

alias wget='wget -c'

executes neofetch

alias nn='neofetch'

displays system information and current dns

alias ii='inxi -b -A -i && nmcli dev show | grep 'IP4.DNS' '

systemctl start

alias sstart='sudo systemctl start'

systemctl stop

alias sstop='sudo systemctl stop'

systemctl restart

alias srestart='sudo systemctl restart' 

systemctl status

alias sstatus='sudo systemctl status'

ping tester with log file

alias pingtest='ping -i 1 -s 1472 8.8.8.8 | while read line; do echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") - $line"; done | tee -a ~/logs/"$(date "+%F")-ping.log"'

local ip address

alias myip="ip -o -4 addr show | awk '{print \$2, \$4}'"

get your current public ip with command pubip

pubip() {
    # Define the API URL (you can change it if needed)
    local api_url="http://ipinfo.io/json"
    
    # Fetch data using curl and parse it with jq
    if command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        # Ensure jq is installed
        curl -s "$api_url" | jq -r '
            "IP: \(.ip)",
            "Hostname: \(.hostname)",
            "City: \(.city)",
            "Region: \(.region)",
            "Country: \(.country)",
            "Org: \(.org)"
        '
    else
        echo "jq is required but not installed. Install jq and try again."
    fi
}