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Essential quality of life terminal improvements

jess unrein on October 26, 2018

If you're anything like me, you spend a lot of time in your terminal. I went an embarrassingly long time without customizing anything because I'm f...

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Parker Holladay • Oct 27 '18

I notice your ..="cd .." alias. Try autocd=true. You'll never need to type cd again.

Jasper Stephenson • Oct 27 '18

That one doesn't work for me! Does it not work in stock Terminal?

Parker Holladay • Oct 27 '18

My bad. The command is actually shopt -s autocd. I should have checked my bashrc first.

Jasper Stephenson • Oct 27 '18

Just so anyone trying this knows, I had to update my bash to @4+ to get this working!
Here's a handy guide on getting it working:
clubmate.fi/upgrade-to-bash-4-in-m...

Ashe • Oct 29 '18

!!!!!! OMG This is so great!!!!!!! (thanks for sharing this awesome tip!)

jess unrein • Oct 27 '18

Ooh. That one is new to me and I’m very excited to try it out. Thanks!

Matti • Oct 29 '18

If ur really that lazy u should just install oh-my-zsh. It does all the cool stuff out of thr box, plugins r auto updated and u can even sync ur zshrc.
Its has autocomplete for everything, is case insensitive etc. Give it a try!

I was like u for way to longtime until a colleague showed my omz😊

jess unrein • Oct 29 '18

I am just so reluctant to learn a whole new thing. I'm busy learning other things and there are only so many things I can focus on! But zsh is definitely on my list of things to check out....at some point.

rhymsy • Nov 1 '18

Here for your spare time :)

Jorge use ZSH with Oh My Zsh

I know you probably don't need the setup parts... but a quick parse through the first one and some looks in the second and you'll be off to the races

dev.to/jorge_rockr/my-development-...

Matti • Oct 29 '18

There‘s really nothing much to learn, oh my zsh does all for u!
It configures zsh to a point where u might only want to join the theme and nothing else

Ben Sinclair • Oct 27 '18

Please ignore my borderline absurd uptime I should restart more often

Nuh-huh. Take pride in your uptime! If you don't need to reboot, why reboot?

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Jun 14 '19

These are my aliases if its of interest:

alias gst='git status'
alias co='git checkout'
alias ga='git add'
alias gaa='git add .'
alias gr='git rebase'
alias gpr='git pull --rebase'
alias gp='git pull'
alias gh='git push'
alias gd='git diff | vim'
alias gc='git commit -v'
alias gca='git commit -v -a'
alias gb='git branch'
alias mb='deetsm; expm; middleman build'
alias ms='deetsm; expm; middleman serve -p 8080'
alias gba='git branch -a'
alias rgm='bundle exec rails generate migration'
alias rs='deets; exp; bundle exec rails s -b 0.0.0.0 -p 8080'
alias rc='bundle exec rake db:create'
alias rd='bundle exec rake db:migrate'
alias rdd='bundle exec rake db:drop'
alias rdr='bundle exec rake db:rollback'
alias rad='bundle exec rake db:auto:migrate'
alias rr='rake routes'
alias gsw='git add .; git stash save; git checkout master; git pull; git stash apply'
alias ggco='git rebase --continue'
alias ggcs='git rebase --skip'
alias ggca='git rebase --abort'
alias gsl='git stash list'
alias gsp='git stash pop'
alias gsa='git stash apply'
alias gsc='git stash clear'
alias gbl='git branch list'
alias zz='tar -xzvf'
alias exp='cd /home/ubuntu/environment/exampro'
alias expm='cd /home/ubuntu/environment/exampro-marketing'
alias bi='bundle install'
alias bx='bundle exec'
alias gsoft='git reset --soft HEAD^'
alias rrrr='bundle exec rake db:drop; bundle exec rake db:create; bundle exec rake db:migrate; bundle exec rake db:seed'