topalias

topalias - Linux alias generator from bash/zsh command history with statistics, written on Python.

Features

• Generate short alias for popular command from bash/zsh shell history
• Command history statistics & analytics
• Parametrised input
• Console help for all commands, options and arguments
• Shell workflow hints

Installation

From pypi.org repository:

pip3 install -U --user topalias

From source:

git clone https://github.com/CSRedRat/topalias
python3 topalias/setup.py install --user

Run as python script without install:

git clone https://github.com/CSRedRat/topalias
python3 topalias/topalias/cli.py -h

Install requirements

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip -y

Add PATH environment variable for run Python tools as Linux utility:

echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Usage

Without parameters utility check if you use alias in ~/.bash_aliases - analyze and print usage statistics, then find new simple aliases

python3 -m topalias  # run as python module
topalias  # check aliases and print suggestion bash command history
topalias -h  # print help
topalias --zsh  # work with zsh shell command history
topalias --min=2  # set minimal length for generated acronym filter, so that exclude some short command and find long, hard, usable command
topalias --debug history  # only analyze local bash history and print filtered rows

Files path search order:

• directory from execution parameter
• .bash_history in . current directory
• .bash_history in ~ user home directory
• example development files in topalias/data

You can change dot files search path to another user home directory:

topalias -f /home/user  # or topalias --path /home/user

Also you can use topalias utility in Bash for Git on Windows and in WSL.

Documentation

Usage: topalias [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]

Options:
  -l, --min INTEGER     Print alias acronym not less that value. Default: 1
  -c, --count INTEGER   Print specified number acronym suggestions. Default:
                        20

  --filter              Filter used aliases in history. Default: False
  -z, --zsh             Use zsh shell history file .zsh_history. Default:
                        False

  -f, --path TEXT       Change custom directory for files: .bash_aliases,
                        .bash_history, .zsh_history

  --version             Print current program version and check latest on
                        pypi.org.

  --debug / --no-debug  Enable debug strings in output.
  -h, --help            Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  hint     Print all hints.
  history  Print bash history file.
  version  Get program current and available version.

TODO

• check if alias name already used
• check if alias already added
• add any another acronym algorithm with semantic
• more statistics & analytics (used dir, utils, parameters, time)
• alias max length parameter
• command ignore list flag: top, emacs, vim
• often used command “ssh username@servername” suggest add to .ssh/config/

License

GPLv3

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Sergey Chudakov
💻 🚇 🤔 🚧 📦
Sergey Morozik
💻

GitLab repository mirror with CI/CD: https://gitlab.com/CSRedRat/topalias