Inserting favorites into shell console

Question

Is there any tool/terminal emulator which supports that I can insert my 'favourites' like '2>/dev/null' or 'date +%Y%m%d%H%M' and so forth .. everywhere into the command line ?

I could not find any terminal emulator, or clipboard tool which has favorites ... :(

Thanks in advance.

Using aliases and bash functions are not enough flexible inserting these anywhere into the command line.

Answer 1

Save them as variables in your .bashrc (or if you use another shell, save them in its rc file).

For example: You can insert the line var1='2>/dev/null' in your .bashrc file. Once you start the terminal and run any script which runs via bash (its shebang should refer to bash), you can refer to your variable by using $var1

Answer 2

If you have a preferred invocation of date, you can set an alias:

alias date='date +%Y%m%d%H%M'

Now whenever you type date, you'll get the output of date +%Y%m%d%H%M. You don't have to use the same name, e.g., you could use alias date2=....

You can make that permanent by adding it to ~/.bashrc.