Some bash aliases to speed up daily tasks

Posted by Jorge Bernal May 20, 2008

# Enable some colors
alias ls="ls -G"
# Gimme details and size in KB, MB or GB, I'm not good reading bytes
alias l="ls -lh"

# SSH aliases
alias moe="ssh moe.warp.es"
# I always misspelled that one :P
alias mow=moe
alias ebox="ssh root@ebox"
alias amedias="ssh amedias.org"
alias rssh="ssh -l root"

# Git alias
ci="git ci" # Formerly svn ci
# Jump to github from repository
alias github="git config -l | grep 'remote.origin.url' | sed -n \
's/remote.origin.url=git@github.com:\(.*\)\/\(.*\).git/https:\/\/github.com\/\1\/\2/p' \
| xargs open"

# MySQL
alias myserver="sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server"

# Start webserver on localhost:8000 sharing current directory
alias webshare='python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()"'

# Rails server
alias ss="./script/server"
alias sss="screen ./script/server"
alias sr="screen -r"
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5 Responses to “Some bash aliases to speed up daily tasks”

  1. sapphirecat says:
    May 20, 2008 at 1:48 am

    My ~/.ssh/config file looks a lot like so:

    Host foo
    HostName foo.bar.com

    Host baz
    HostName 192.168.0.1

    Host *
    Protocol 2
    ….

    Then I can use “foo” or “baz” as hostnames in ssh/scp without needing to come up with any cleverly named aliases.

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  2. Nick Presta says:
    May 20, 2008 at 2:29 am

    Here are a couple more I use:

    alias ls=’ls –color -F’
    alias rm=’rm -i’ # personal preference, I suppose.
    alias grep=’grep –color=tty -d skip’
    alias egrep=’egrep –color=tty -d skip’
    alias fgrep=’fgrep –color=tty -d skip’

    Good tips, thanks!

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  3. Noob says:
    May 20, 2008 at 7:31 am

    Hi, can you explain what are these for exactly to the novices?Is it about optimization or else?Thanks in advance.

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  4. Eric Day says:
    May 20, 2008 at 7:56 am

    As a general security rule, you usually want to disable remote root login. I’d suggest adding:

    PermitRootLogin no

    To your sshd_config and restart sshd while we’re editing files. :)

    Also, if you’re a tcsh user (yes, we still exist!), play with the ‘complete’ command:

    complete ssh ‘p/1/(eday@host1.com someone@somewhere.com kitchensink.com)/’
    complete cd ‘p/1/d/’

    This allows you to program your own TAB auto-complete options (instead of normal files). The cd example will only auto-complete with directory entries (hence the d). The ssh one:

    ssh e

    would auto-complete to

    ssh eday@host1.com

    I’m guessing there is some bash equivalent but I’ve not checked.

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  5. Marius Gedminas says:
    May 20, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    BTW ‘python -m SimpleHTTPServer’ is a shorter equivalent spelling of ‘python -c “import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()”‘.

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