Bash/Zsh Aliases Generator

An alias is text substitution at the start of a command line. The gain is not saving keystrokes — it is making cheap a command you would otherwise avoid for being long, and pinning the right options on commands you always run the same way. Nobody types ls with three flags all day; everybody types ll.

Tick the groups you care about and the page assembles the block. Covered are listing, Git, navigation — including the ones that climb directories, which save a surprising amount — and networking. One detail: the shortcut that creates a directory and enters it is not an alias but a function, because an alias takes no argument in the middle; it only pastes text at the front of the line.

Where to put it depends on the shell and how it starts. In bash, ~/.bashrc is read by an interactive non-login shell, which is the terminal you open in a desktop session; ~/.bash_profile is read at login. Many distributions have the profile source the bashrc precisely to avoid that confusion. In zsh the equivalent is ~/.zshrc. After editing, either open a new terminal or reload with source.