{"id":53,"date":"2009-11-04T16:23:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T15:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2009-11-04T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T15:33:40","slug":"useful-aliases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/04\/useful-aliases\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful aliases"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>alias top = htop<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/htop.sourceforge.net\">Htop<\/a> is a top replacement, with colors, per-cpu load indicators, scrolling (specially horizontal scrolling so you can see the whole command line for each process), searching, a nicer interface to kill\/renice processes, mouse support, and the ability to call strace\/ltrace\/lsof easily on the process you want.<\/p>\n<pre>alias info = pinfo\r\nalias man  = pinfo -m<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinfo.sourceforge.net\">Pinfo<\/a> is a lynx-style info and man browser. The main reason to use this, IMHO, is that GNU Info simply sucks as a browser. I&#8217;m not so sure about replacing man, as I&#8217;m confortable with less-style keybindings, but the ability to follow links to related manpages is a great feature :D<\/p>\n<p>Both are included in all popular distros, so installation is only a matter of looking for the packages in the distro repositories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alias top = htop Htop is a top replacement, with colors, per-cpu load indicators, scrolling (specially horizontal scrolling so you can see the whole command line for each process), searching, a nicer interface to kill\/renice processes, mouse support, and the ability to call strace\/ltrace\/lsof easily on the process you want. alias info = pinfo alias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slack.codemaniacs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}