Overview

Table of Contents

• ~/.bash_profile
• ~/.gitconfig
• ~/.ssh/config

Over the years I have updated my .bash_profile and my .gitconfig with useful command aliases. I will share the most interesting ones and roughly explain these in this post.

~/.bash_profile#

Note, I am using oh-my-zsh as a command shell / bash alternative. The following aliases and functions work well on whatever shell you are using.

Neatly display all files and directories in the current directory.

alias ll='ls -FGlAhp'

Create intermediate directories as needed and log each during creation.

alias mkdir='mkdir -pv'

Prompt for each file which would be overwritten and log each file moved.

alias mv='mv -iv'

The following aliases really speed up your change directory usage.

alias cd..='cd ../'   # Go back 1 directory level.
alias ..='cd ../'     # Go back 1 directory level.
alias cd2='cd ../../' # Go back 2 directory levels.
alias cd3='cd ../../../' # Go back 3 directory levels.

Open the current directory in finder.

alias f='open .'

Quick and easy docker-compose aliases.

alias dcu='docker-compose up -d'
alias dcd='docker-compose down'
alias dcl='docker-compose logs -f'
alias dcb='docker-compose build'

Sometimes one just needs a quick and dirty dns flush.

alias flushdns='sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; say DNS cache flushed'

Extract most know archives with one command

extract () {
        if [ -f $1 ] ; then
          case $1 in
            *.tar.bz2)   tar xjf $1     ;;
            *.tar.gz)    tar xzf $1     ;;
            *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1     ;;
            *.rar)       unrar e $1     ;;
            *.gz)        gunzip $1      ;;
            *.tar)       tar xf $1      ;;
            *.tbz2)      tar xjf $1     ;;
            *.tgz)       tar xzf $1     ;;
            *.zip)       unzip $1       ;;
            *.Z)         uncompress $1  ;;
            *.7z)        7z x $1        ;;
            *)     echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via extract()" ;;
             esac
         else
             echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
         fi
    }

Display your local ipv4

alias myip="ifconfig | grep -Eo 'inet (addr:)?([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*' | grep -Eo '([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*' | grep -v '127.0.0.1'"

Display useful host related information.

ii() {
        echo -e "\nYou are logged on ${RED}$HOST"
        echo -e "\nAdditionnal information:$NC " ; uname -a
        echo -e "\n${RED}Users logged on:$NC " ; w -h
        echo -e "\n${RED}Current date :$NC " ; date
        echo -e "\n${RED}Machine stats :$NC " ; uptime
        echo -e "\n${RED}Public facing IP Address :$NC " ;myip
    }

~/.gitconfig#

The following git aliases are my favourite implementation and formatting for the git log command.

[alias]
    # with date
    ls = log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h\\ %C(green)%cd%C(red)%d\\ %Creset%s%C(green)\\ [%cn]%C(yellow)\\ [%an]" --decorate
    
    # with age of last commit
    ld = log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h\\ %C(green)%cd\\ %C(yellow)%ad%C(red)%d\\ %Creset%s%C(green)\\ [%cn]%C(yellow)\\ [%an]" --decorate --date=relative
    
    # verbose, with file changes
    ll = log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h\\ %C(green)%cd%C(red)%d\\ %Creset%s%C(green)\\ [%cn]%C(yellow)\\ [%an]" --decorate --numstat

Example git ls: Example git ld: Example git ll:

Download my .gitconfig here.

~/.ssh/config#

The following blocks are two examples of my ~/.ssh/config.

This 'forces" ssh to send/use your defined public key on every connection.

Host *
 AddKeysToAgent yes
 UseKeychain yes
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/user

This is an example on how to save ssh connections. Specifing these, you are able to connect to the host via ssh name.

Host name
 Hostname 111.111.111.111
 User user
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/user

Thanks for reading!

luca