# 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  
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"

5 thoughts on “Some bash aliases to speed up daily tasks”

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

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