> A normal ping will go on forever. We don't want that. Instead, let's limit that to just five pings.
It almost always what I want.
> alias getpass="openssl rand -base64 20"
If you really want to be handy, use "pass generate -c" instead of openssl, you got the password stored in your passstore and temporary copied to the clipboard.
> alias www='python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000'
that'll only work on systems where python is python2
> alias speed='speedtest-cli --server 2406 --simple'
speedtest-cli automatically selects a server, invoking it without any opts at all is perfectly fine
> alias ipi='ipconfig getifaddr en0'
the interface name is not predictable, nor portable - `ip a`
Most if not all of these aliases seem rather pointless after all