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I’m constantly trying to get my hands off the mouse and onto the keyboard so I’ve been looking for tweaks and tricks to help me to do what I need to do with fewer mouse clicks and keystrokes. I’ve been using a mouse regularly since using an Amiga 1200, so 20 years habit is proving a bit tricky to break.

Anyway, here’s some things and what they do. I prefer to put everything in ~/.bash_aliases rather than using .bashrc for anything. I’m not at all sure if this is a good thing or not. It works for me though.

# Create parent dirs if they don't exist
alias mkdir="mkdir -p"

# Easy access to Apache logs
alias he='tail -n 100 -f /var/log/apache2/error.log'
alias ha='tail -n 100 -f /var/log/apache2/access.log'
alias hr='tail -n 100 -f /var/log/apache2/rewrite.log'

# Restart Apache
alias apr='sudo service apache2 restart'

# Run log files through tail
alias t100='tail -n 100 -f'

# Ubuntu updates, including a fix to avoid dl.google.com being painfully slow
alias update='sudo apt-get -o Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth=0 update && \
              sudo apt-fast upgrade'

# Shows list of previous commands to be rerun with !{command-number}
alias h='history'

# Speaks for itself
alias svi='sudo vi'

# Ascend directories easily
alias ..="cd .."
alias ...="cd ../.."
alias ....="cd ../../.."
alias .....="cd ../../../.."

# Tidy a terminal so I don't keep wondering if I was halfway through something
alias c="cd; clear"

# SVN
alias sc="svn ci -m"
alias ss="svn status"
alias sup="svn up" 

# Git
alias gs="git status"
alias gp="git push"
alias gc="git commit -a -m"
alias ga="git add"

# Shortcuts to projects example
alias sand='cd /var/www/sandbox'  #webroot
alias sands='cd /usr/local/src/sandbox/trunk' #source trunk
alias sandb='cd /usr/local/src/sandbox/branch/1,0.1' #source live branch
alias sandl='tail -n100 -f  /var/www/sandbox/logs/sandbox.log' #run log through tail

# SSH example
# I use a config file for all connections with key access, but 
# don't want to type 'ssh {connection}' everytime
alias sandbox='ssh sandbox.com'

# Run root commands without full path
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin

# System control
alias halt="sudo halt"
alias reboot="sudo reboot"

# BASH commands
# Run BASH in vi mode
set -o vi

# Try to correct typos when using 'cd'
shopt -s cdspell

# Try to correct typos when doing anything else on directories
shopt -s dirspell

$ Type a directory name to cd into it
shopt -s autocd