Cralias - a set of useful aliases for bash

Cralias is a set of useful commands and shortcuts for the terminal!

For example, who wouldn't want to type .. to go up a directory, or ..., to go up two directories? How about vk to view a live list of all files in the current directory? Or unik to deduplicate entries in an output stream without sorting.

The full list of all commands is in cralias.sh, each one is commented describing what it does!

If you have any suggestions for cralias commands, let me know!

Installation

Add source </path/to/cralias>/cralias.sh to your bashrc to use cralias!

Or, more explicitly:

Clone the thing:

mkdir -p ~/Software; cd ~/Software
git clone git@github.com:mpdunne/cralias.git

And then for Linux:

echo "source ~/Software/cralias/cralias.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Or for Mac:

echo "source ~/Software/cralias/cralias.sh" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

For Windows? No idea 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Requirements

Cralias uses standard bash and zsh functions. Some systems may be not have all required functions built in, but you can install them! For full functionality:

• Make sure watch is installed (e.g. brew install watch on Mac)
• Make sure column is installed (e.g. on linux might need to do apt install util-linux and/or apt install bsdmainutils).
• If using zsh or a Mac, install gfind using brew install findutils.