dotfiles/docs/Bash.md

Bash Aliases & Scripts

Navigation

• .. → cd ..

• ... → cd ../..

• .... → cd ../../..

• ..... → cd ../../../..

• ~ → cd ~

• - → cd -

Shortcuts

• dr → cd ~/Dropbox

• pj → cd ~/Dropbox/Projects

• pjr → cd ~/Dropbox/Projects/_Repos

• pjf → cd ~/Dropbox/Projects/_Forks

• pjm → cd ~/Dropbox/Projects/!

• o → open

• oo → open .

• e → subl

• gh → github

• +x → chmod +x

• md

  → Make directory and cd to it.

• f → Recursively find file in current directory.

• c → Trim new lines and copy text to clipboard.

File System

extract [directory]

Extract archives of various types.

emptytrash

Empty the Trash on all mounted volumes and the main HDD. Also, clear Apple’s System Logs to improve shell startup speed.

cleandesktop

Remove screenshots from desktop.

show / hide

Show/hide hidden files in Finder.

Text

dos2unix

Convert file to Unix line endings.

crlf [--force]

Find files with Windows line endings (and convert them to Unix when --force key given).

escape

Escape UTF-8 characters into their 3-byte format: £ → \xC2\xA3.

codepoint

Get a character’s Unicode code point: £ → \x00A3.

Network

GET / HEAD / POST / PUT / DELETE / TRACE / OPTIONS

Make HTTP request using respective method.

headers

Print HTTP headers of a given URL.

gz

Get gzipped file size.

httpcompression

Test if HTTP compression (RFC 2616 + SDCH) is enabled for a given URL. Send a fake UA string for sites that sniff it instead of using the Accept-Encoding header.

ssh-key

Copy public SSH key to clipboard. Generate it if necessary.

add-ssh-host

Create an SSH key and uploads it to the given host.

yay

Upload current directory to special directory on my hosting.

mysql-dump <ssh_hostname> <mysql_database> [mysql_username] [mysql_host]

Backup remote MySQL database to ~/Backups/hostname/dbname_YYYY-MM-DD.sql.gz.

rasterize

Save page screenshot to file.

NPM

npm-patch / npm-release

Increment version (npm-patch by 0.0.1 and npm-release by 0.1.x) of NPM package and make Git commit.

Grunt

gw / gs

Run Grunt’s watch and server tasks:

gw → grunt deploy --debug && grunt watch --debug gs → grunt deploy --debug && grunt serve --debug

gi [template]

Just shortcut for grunt-init.

Magic Project Opener

proj / repo / wptheme [project]

Change current directory to project folder / Git repo / Wordpress theme forlder of given “project”. Use fuzzy search.

Misc

password [length]

Generate random password and copy it to clipboard. Default length is 8.

path

Show $PATH in a readable way.

dotfiles

Update dotfiles. Pull latest version from GitHub, syncronize symlinks and reread ~/.bashrc.

update

Get OS X software updates, update Homebrew, NPM, Ruby packages, dotfiles and some other software.

nyan

Print nyan cat :-)

dot-bash / dot-git

Display Bash aliases (this file) or Git aliases cheat sheets in Quick Look.