I have a whole repository also including several dotfiles that I maintain for already several years [1]. Following are some snippets from the dotfiles/.alias an

I have a whole repository also including several dotfiles that I maintain for already several years [1]. Following are some snippets from the dotfiles/.alias and dotfiles/.functions files from that repository that probably are the most interesting and which I am using on a regular basis: # easier navigation alias ..="cd .." alias ...="cd ../.." alias ....="cd ../../.." alias .....="cd ../../../.." alias ~="cd ~" # Get current public ip address alias ip="dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com" # Alias for summing a column alias mksum="paste -sd+ - | bc" # Export pbcopy / pbpaste to linux if [[ "${OSTYPE}" == "linux"* ]]; then alias pbcopy="xclip -selection clipboard" alias pbpaste="xclip -selection clipboard -o" fi # create a new directory and enter it function mkd() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$_"; } # plot stuff directly from the command line. # Example: seq 100 | sed 's/.*/s(&)/' | bc -l | plot linecolor 2 # -> Generate 100 numbers, wrap it in s(<num>) and calc sin(<num>) function plot() { { echo 'plot "-"' "$@"; cat; } | gnuplot -persist; } # wrapper for easy extraction of compressed files function extract () { if [ -f $1 ] ; then case $1 in *.tar.xz) tar xvJf $1 ;; *.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;; *.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 ;; *.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;; *.rar) unrar e $1 ;; *.gz) gunzip $1 ;; *.tar) tar xvf $1 ;; *.tbz2) tar xvjf $1 ;; *.tgz) tar xvzf $1 ;; *.apk) unzip $1 ;; *.epub) unzip $1 ;; *.xpi) unzip $1 ;; *.zip) unzip $1 ;; *.war) unzip $1 ;; *.jar) unzip $1 ;; *.Z) uncompress $1 ;; *.7z) 7z x $1 ;; *) echo "don't know how to extract '$1'..." ;; esac else echo "'$1' is not a valid file!" fi } [1] https://github.com/NewProggie/Dev-Utils https://github.com/NewProggie/Dev-Utils