Command Alias/Shortcuts

[trufae]

This is the list (according to the help messages of r2) of commands that do the same as other commands. will be good to evaluate if they are necessary ( most of them i think so, as they save us from muscle memory errors ), or if they can be removed.

[0x00000000]> ?*~alias for
| 0                   alias for 's 0'
| 0xaddr              alias for 's 0x..'
| %var=value              alias for 'env' command
| x[?] [len]              alias for 'px' (print hexadecimal)
| a                alias for aai - analysis information
| aa                  alias for 'af@@ sym.*;af@entry0;afva'
| aa    alias for 'af@@ sym.*;af@entry0;afva'
| abe [addr]           emulate basic block (alias for aeb)
| do[?]                    Open process (reload, alias for 'oo')
| doo[args]                Reopen in debug mode with args (alias for 'ood')
| doof[file]               Reopen in debug mode from file (alias for 'oodf')
| do            Open process (reload, alias for 'oo')
| doo [args]    Reopen in debug mode with args (alias for 'ood')
| doof [args]   Reopen in debug mode from file (alias for 'oodf')
| f name = 33              alias for 'f name @ 33' or 'f name 1 33'
| ih                 Headers (alias for iH)
| pdx [hex]        alias for pad or pix
| pid              alias for pdi
| pix  [hexpairs]  alias for pdx and pad
| psq          alias for pqs
| pvz                   print value as string (alias for ps)
| P- [file]  delete project (alias for Pd)
| uw     alias for wc (requires: e io.cache=true)
| us     alias for s- (seek history)
| woR                           random bytes (alias for 'wr $b')
| wow [val]                     ==  write looped value (alias for 'wb')
| zg           generate zignatures (alias for zaF)
[0x00000000]>

[0x00000000]> ?*~same as~!above
| @c:cmd              seek to the address printed by the given command. same as '@ `cmd`'
| x @@c:cmd           the same as @@=`` without the backticks
| =&:port                       start rap server in background (same as '&_=h')
| ?j arg                           same as '? num' but in JSON
| ...                repeat last command forward (same as \n)
| .* file ...        same as #!pipe open cfg.editor and interpret tmp file
 */head/10      same as | head -n 10
 */tail/10      same as | tail -n 10
| =&:port                       start rap server in background (same as '&_=h')
| /O [n]                       same as /o, but with a different fallback if anal cannot be used
| #!python foo.py       run foo.py python script (same as '. foo.py')
| a*               same as afl*;ah*;ax*
| aj               same as a* but in json (aflj)
| aaFa [sym*]         same as aaF but uses af/a2f instead of af+/afb+ (slower but more accurate)
| aaaa  same as aaa but adds a bunch of experimental iterations
| aaf         same as afr@@c:isq
| aafe        same as aef@@F
| ab.                  same as: ab $$
| afc             Show Calling convention for the Current function (same as tcc)
| afn.                    same as afn without arguments. show the function name in current offset
| ahi1 10     set base of argument 1 to base 10 (same as ahi1 d)
| axt* [addr]  same as axt, but prints as r2 commands
| axf* [addr]  same as axt, but prints as r2 commands
| e.a=b              same as 'e a=b' but without using a space
| ll [path]                                 same as ls -l
| lr [path]                                 same as ls -r
| ls -l [path]                              same as ll (list files with details)
| le[ss] [path]                             same as cat file~.. (or less)
| o--                          close all files, analysis, binfiles, flags, same as !r2 --
| oodr [rarun2]   # same as dor ..;ood
| px/               same as x/ in gdb (help x)
| pxi               examine instructions (same as pDi)
| Q            same as q!!
| s.       Seek here, same as 's $$'
| wao jz    make current opcode conditional (same as je) (zero)
| wao jnz   make current opcode conditional (same as jne) (not zero)
| px/               same as x/ in gdb (help x)
| pxi               examine instructions (same as pDi)
Usage: y[ptxy] [len] [[@]addr]   # See wd? for memcpy, same as 'yf'.
| yfx 10203040    yank from hexpairs (same as ywx)
| ywx 10203040    yank from hexpairs (same as yfx)
[0x00000000]>

[trufae]

Also worth refering to the dyslexic ones #20003

[alex-bender]

What about implementing these aliases as .. aliases? in .r2init radare2rc file for example

[trufae]

Thats an interesting proposal. maybe we should do like in vim that there's a system vimrc that defines some defaults instead of hardcoding them in code. But i always wanted to make r2 work out of the box without depending on system files

[alex-bender]

we can do something like
make generate_aliases > .aliases
you've got the idea