aliases.txt

# useful aliases

# when network connection goes down, many procs hang; this kills them in a single blow (because typing on the keyboard can be hard + remembering which processes to kill can be difficult as well)

# both killed 25 Aug 2017, not needed on saopaulo

# alias diedie "sudo pkill convert; sudo pkill xwd; sudo pkill curl; sudo pkill grep; sudo pkill sshfs; sudo pkill find; sudo pkill bc-xwd.pl; sudo pkill bc-elec-snap.pl"
# alias diediedie "sudo pkill -9 convert; sudo pkill -9 xwd; sudo pkill -9 curl; sudo pkill -9 grep; sudo pkill -9 sshfs; sudo pkill -9 find; sudo pkill -9 bc-xwd.pl; sudo pkill -9 bc-elec-snap.pl"

# nagios status from status.dat (very kludgey)
alias nagstat "egrep 'host_name|plugin_output|current_state|(host|service)status|service_description|check_command' /var/nagios/status.dat | grep -v 'long_plugin_output'"

# cleanup nagios status files that are older than last nagios invocation
# TODO: this should really be done automatically at nagios restart
alias nagclean "find /home/barrycarter/ERR -iname 'nagios.*.err' ! -newer /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd | xargs rm"

# check all nagios services
# <h>but mostly show off my insane shell alias</h>
# TODO: make nagios do this at startup somehow?
# the "date +%s" that was below hardcoded to when aliases.txt was
# loaded, so just replacing it with 0 which must work as well
alias nagcheck "grep host_name /var/nagios/status.dat | sort | uniq | cut -d= -f 2 | xargs -I'{}' sudo echo '[0] SCHEDULE_FORCED_HOST_SVC_CHECKS;{};0' >> /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd"

# start nagios "my way" (sleep sadly needed since nagios doesn't die instantly)
# <h>who needs /etc/init.d anyway!</h>
# this fails if nagios isn't running already; pkill nagios && nagios
# would've been a better option
alias nagstart "echo restarting nagios...; sudo rm /home/barrycarter/ERR/nagios.*.err; sudo pkill nagios; sudo nice -19 nagios -d /home/barrycarter/BCGIT/NAGIOS/nagios.cfg; sleep 5; nagcheck"

# volume
alias volume "amixer set 'Master Front' \!*"

# how many watts (joules/second) of electricity you're using, if it
# takes your meter n+-1 seconds to go around (assuming you have
# standard 7.2 electric meter)
alias watts 'echo "25920/\!*\n25920/(\!* -1)\n25920/(\!* +1)" | bc'

# just a silly way to do a quick plot
alias qplot 'echo plot \"/tmp/gnuplot.txt\" with linespoints | gnuplot -persist'

# makes locate case-insensitive and stores result in file (I often do
# 'locate', expecting minimal results, but there are lots and they
# scroll off-screen)
alias locate 'locate -i \!* | tee /var/tmp/bc-cmd-locate.txt'

# useful to confirm pkill works
# <h>NOTE: -v does NOT mean verbose!</h>
alias pkill "pkill \!*; pgrep -l \!*"

# I do NOT want "which" aliases to "alias | which...", since that
# breaks "which cd"
unalias which

# pull weather from my site (must use dots in name)
alias weather "curl \!*.weather.94y.info"

# run a single nagios test
alias nagtest "sudo /home/barrycarter/BCGIT/bc-call-func.pl run_nagios_test \!*"
alias nagiostest "echo 'this is obsolete; use nagtest instead'"

# logs me into bcinfo3 into a new local screen and starts remote screen
alias bcinfo3 "screen -t BC3 ssh -i /home/barrycarter/.ssh/id_rsa.bc -tt root@bcinfo3 screen -d -R"

alias bcpc "screen -t BCPC ssh -tt Owner@bcpc"

# after old bcinfo machine broke, this is new one (defined as bcinfo4
# in /etc/hosts) (shared hosting)

# later, they disinstalled screen (bastards)

alias bcinfo4 "screen -t BC4 ssh -i /home/barrycarter/.ssh/id_rsa.bc barrycar@bcinfo4"

# rsyncs to bcinfo3 (my new plugin is so awesome,I even sync it to my old site)
# alias bcinfo3sync "cd /home/barrycarter/BCGIT; \rsync -e 'ssh -i /home/barrycarter/.ssh/id_rsa.bc' -Pvzrlpt *.pl */*.pl root@bcinfo3:/usr/local/bin/; \rsync -Pvzrlpt -e 'ssh -i /home/barrycarter/.ssh/id_rsa.bc' /home/barrycarter/BCGIT/BCINFO3/ root@bcinfo3:/; \rsync -Pvzrlpt -e 'ssh -i /home/barrycarter/.ssh/id_rsa.bc' /home/barrycarter/BCGIT/BCINFO3/sites/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ root@bcinfo:/usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/"
# testing replacement using bc-mirror-server

# some data on bcinfo3 has to be private (eg, auth keys), so must also
# mirror from private directory

# 22 Feb 2016: created/added special id for this

alias bcinfo3sync "bc-mirror-server.pl --ssh='ssh -i /home/barrycarter/.ssh/id_rsa.bc' /home/barrycarter/BCGIT/BCINFO3/ bcinfo3; bc-mirror-server.pl --ssh='ssh -i /home/barrycarter/.ssh/id_rsa.bc' /home/barrycarter/BCINFO3-PRIV bcinfo3"

# chmods all Perl scripts to +x (something I tend to be bad about)
alias perlfix "find /home/barrycarter/PERL/ /home/barrycarter/BCGIT/ -iname '*.pl' | xargs chmod +x"

# easier access to datediff subroutine
alias datediff "bc-call-func.pl datediff"

# check if word is in WWF dictionary
alias wwf "bzfgrep -ix \!* /home/barrycarter/BCGIT/WWF/wwf.txt.bz2"

# brings up electric meter camera in vlc (which I've configured to
# take screenshots every minute
# it took quite a bit of work to get the nice's below working properly
# pkill -9 added since the somagic-capture process sometimes lingers
# (and so can the vlc process sometimes)
# dropped 25 Aug 2017: stopped using this ages ago
# alias elecstart "sudo pkill -9 vlc; sudo pkill -9 somagic-capture; sudo /bin/nice -n 19 somagic-capture | /bin/nice -n 19 vlc --config /home/barrycarter/.config/vlc/vlcrc-elecstart --demux rawvideo --rawvid-fps 15 --rawvid-width 720 --rawvid-height 576 --rawvid-chroma=UYVY file:///dev/stdin &"

# recollq output tends to scroll by
# 8 Oct 2014: added old "bad" index (that recollindex can no longer
# use) that still seems to work for searching

# 20 Dec 2015: reset index
# 26 Sep 2017: new config dir, and just use "recoll -t"

# alias recollq "recollq \!* | tee /var/tmp/bc-cmd-recollq.txt"

alias recollq "recoll -t -c /root/.recoll/ \!* | tee /var/tmp/bc-cmd-recollq.txt"

# seeing date to nanosecond isnt superuseful except when 'time' fails
# can't really alias date as it breaks things like +%s and -d
alias daten 'date \!* +"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S.%N %Z %Y"'

# quick vnc to my Mac
alias vnc-bcmac "\vncviewer -passwd /home/barrycarter/.vnc/passwd-bcmac -geometry 1024x768+3072+768 bcmac&"

# no install script for ccextractor?
alias ccextractor "/root/build/ccextractor.0.67/linux/ccextractor"

# show me my "at" jobs with some details
# TODO: this doesnt match up jobs to events
# on saopaulo, "at -c <job>" does this + below fails, so replacing
# alias atsee "atq; sudo find /var/spool/at -maxdepth 1 -type f | fgrep -v '/.SEQ' | sudo xargs tail -n 1"
alias atsee "echo 'use at -c <job number>' instead"

# in theory, xephem should work regardless of where it's started; in
# reality, this:
alias xephem "pushd .; cd /usr/local/xephem; \xephem & popd"

# update git stuff (I should really pull before commit, but this lets
# me push quickly, while the pull and new push can occur in the
# background)
alias bcgit "pushd .; cd ~/BCGIT; git add .; git commit; git pull -v; git push  remotes master; popd"

# running stuff from non-home-dir can do weird things, so..

# unaliased 14 Aug 2017, causes problems with path issues
# alias gnumeric "pushd .; cd ~; \gnumeric \!* & popd"

# unaliased 21 Aug 2017, not needed on saopaulo
# alias skype "pushd .; cd ~; /root/build/skype-4.3.0.37/skype \!*& popd"

# Microsoft fucks up skype and the name change is the least of my problems
alias skype skypeforlinux

# hex2dec often needed
alias hex2dec "bc-call-func.pl hex \!*"

# find most frequently used tags in my todo list (not everything in
# brackets is a tag, but the top most used ones will be)
# not working due to shell use of $
# fixed to not use shell
# alias todotags "perl -nle 'while (s/\[(.*?)\]//) {print \"$1\"}' /home/barrycarter/bc-todo-list.txt|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr"
alias todotags "bc-todotags.pl '\[(.*?)\]' < ~/bc-todo-list.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | less"

# hideously ugly and applicable only to me, this resets my USB bus
alias usbreset "echo 0000:00:1d.0 >! /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/unbind; echo 0000:00:1a.0 >! /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/unbind; echo 0000:00:1a.0 >! /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/bind; echo 0000:00:1d.0 >! /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/bind;"

# makes feh draw darker (more readable) captions and other
# modifications specific to me (-p below slows things down too much?)
# alias feh "feh -p -. -x --draw-tinted -K . -G \!*"
alias feh "feh -. -x --draw-tinted -K . -G \!*"

alias waitpid bc-waitpid.pl

# can add --realsies to below when desired
# alias mirror-referata "bc-mirror-mw.pl --debug --dir=pbs-referata --api=http://pearlsbeforeswine.referata.com/w/api.php \!*"
# below requires file list and --dryrun=0
alias mirror-referata "bc-mirror-mw-attr.pl --debug --api=http://pbs3.referata.com/w/api.php \!*"

# as of 6 jan 2018 (probably WAY before), this is dead
# alias mirror-wikia "bc-mirror-mw.pl --debug --dir=pbs --api=http://pearls-before-swine-bc.wikia.com/api.php \!*"

# for peanuts
alias mirror-peanuts "bc-mirror-mw-attr.pl --debug --api=http://peanuts.referata.com/w/api.php \!*"

# record chat-avenue chats (the quikbak just in case tcpflow
# overwrites the "same" packet from an older session)

# alias chatrecord "cd /home/barrycarter/TRANSCRIPTS/CHATAVENUE; bc-quikbak.pl *; sudo tcpflow 'net 199.59.161.0/24||net 100.42.219.208/29||net 199.59.160.0/24'&"

# chatavenue.com changes IP addresses later (and possibly encrypts, which would make this quite less useful)

alias chatrecord "cd /home/barrycarter/TRANSCRIPTS/CHATAVENUE; bc-quikbak.pl *; sudo tcpflow 'net 45.34.0.0/15'&"

# easier for bc-doing.pl
alias doing "bc-doing.pl \!*"


# probably will never need this again, but using it a lot when
# cleaning up directories

# sha1 of every file in this directory (no symlinks/etc)
alias sha1dir "find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sha1sum"

# strip sha1s from stdin, and return in sorted order
alias sha1sort "(sed 's/ .*//' | \sort | \uniq)"

# to use my special magic file
alias file "file -m /usr/share/magic:/home/barrycarter/BCGIT/bc-magic.dot \!*"

# really bad
# later unaliases as it works fine regularly on saopaulo
# alias zpaq "/root/build/ZPAQ71/zpaq \!*"

# run make in parallel
alias make "make -j \!*"

# quickly check that a file is sorted by extracting a few lines
alias quiksortcheck "bc-fastrand.pl --n=100 \!* | sort -c"

# short name for bc-alarm.pl (alarm2 is because I used to have two
# different alarm systems); the cd is not avoid running xmessage from
# an odd dir (removed cd later, since bc-alarm.pl does this now anyway

alias alarm "/home/barrycarter/BCGIT/bc-alarm.pl \!*"
alias alarm2 "pushd .; cd ; /home/barrycarter/BCGIT/bc-alarm.pl \!*; popd"

# long form of ps that provides more info, as used by bc-daemon-checker2.pl
alias pslong "ps -wwweo 'pid ppid etime rss vsz stat args' \!*"

# open a file in firefox directly from cmd line (fail, will need prog?)
# TODO: only works for one file
alias firefoxfile "readlink -f \!* | bc-open-urls2.pl"
# works for phrases (even without quotes) though it shouldnt
alias firefoxgoogle "echo 'http://google.com/search?q=\!*' | bc-open-urls.pl"

# brings up file in currently running *terminal* version of xemacs
# (which must be running "gnuserv-start"); should rewrite this to use
# gnuclient, but how?

alias emacsfile 'readlink -f \!* | xargs -I : gnudoit \(find-file \":\"\)'

alias date+ "/home/barrycarter/BCGIT/bc-date-plus.pl"

# as part of my plan to never install anything
alias node "/root/build/node-v6.0.0-linux-x86/bin/node"

# lets me play C64/128 games (probably better ways to do this)
alias commodoreplay "\rm ~/temp.zip; \cp \!* ~/temp.zip; x64 ~/temp.zip&"

# opens a window with a given name
alias window "xterm -geometry 80x53 +sb -bg gray45 -bd gray45 -T \!* -n \!* &"

# scans into current directory
# TODO: maybe rename this for saopaulo?
alias scanit "bc-scan-pic-brighton.pl"

# stops processes that slow down machine (even a fast one like
# saopaulo) to point where keyboard itself is slow
# may add more procs later, currently only these two

# qbittorrent is more of a network suck than a CPU suck, but useful to
# stop it when things are going haywire

# 16 Jan 2018: changed mind about qbittorrent

alias stopit "sudo killall -STOP recollindex zpaq rcltar tesseract"

# stopnet stops network intensive processes
alias stopnet "sudo killall -STOP qbittorrent wget curl"

# start mathematica with the <formula(s)> section of given file; useful
# for reloads (note careful avoidance of $)

alias math2 "perl -0777 -ple 's%^(.*?)<formulas>%%s; s%</formulas>.*%%s' \!* | tee /tmp/mathstart.m; math -initfile /tmp/mathstart.m"

# the -i is probably a bad idea (but at least I'm not tweaking the now
# deprecated GREP_OPTIONS); also, it overrides aliases in
# /etc/profile.d/colorgrep.csh

alias grep "grep -ia"
alias fgrep "fgrep -ia"
alias egrep "egrep -ia"

# I don't want these aliase from /etc/profile.d/colorgrep.csh
unalias ls
unalias ll
unalias l.