I set up a bunch of aliases in my ~/.profile a while back, stuff like this:
alias ex1="ssh ex1.example.com"
alias src="cd ~/Sites/src"
Since I use the command line interface to Subversion (I normally prefer a GUI, but for SVN I think the command line is actually faster), I’ve been navigating my source directories more and more often.
Tonight I learned about bash functions – which have now replaced almost all of my aliases.
ex () { ssh $1.example.com ; }
src () { cd ~/Sites/src/$1/trunk ; }
Now I can do stuff like this:
ex ex1
and it becomes:
ssh ex1.example.com
and:
src tasks
becomes:
cd ~/Sites/src/tasks/trunk
Probably 70% of you our there don’t care, and 28% already knew this, but for that remaining 2%… this should be gold. 🙂