alias gi='sudo gem install' alias ll='ls -lah' alias ..='cd ..;' # can then do .. .. .. to move up multiple directories. alias ...='.. ..' alias g='grep -i' #case insensitive grep alias h='history|g' alias ducks='du -cks * | sort -rn |head -11' # Lists the size of all the folders alias top='top -o cpu' alias et="$EDITOR ." alias sprof="reload" alias home="cd $HOME" # the tilde is too hard to reach alias systail='tail -f -n0 /var/log/system.log' alias aptail='tail -f -n0 /var/log/apache*/*log' alias l='ls' alias b='cd -' alias c='clear' # shortcut to clear your terminal # useful command to find what you should be aliasing: alias profileme="history | awk '{print \$2}' | awk 'BEGIN{FS=\"|\"}{print \$1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 20 | sort -nr" # rails stuff alias log='tail -f -0 ./log/*.log' alias ss='ruby ./script/server' alias sc='ruby ./script/console' alias gen='script/generate' alias migration='script/generate migration' alias migrate='rake db:migrate && rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test' alias rollback='rake db:rollback' alias r='rake' alias webshare='python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()"' alias pubkey="cat $HOME/.ssh/*.pub" alias colorslist="set | egrep 'COLOR_\w*'" # lists all the colors