Terminal shortcuts

Fast and easily changeable shortcuts to run Linux shell commands

Features

• Set and manage shortcuts to run Linux shell commands
• Speed in running, setting, and removing shortcuts
  • set: s -a t name-of-long-command
  • run: s t will run name-of-long-command
  • remove: s -rm t
• Ability to pass arguments and use functions
• Advantages over alias:
  • Set and remove shortcuts quickly (no need to edit .bashrc)
  • No name collisions
• Save and use instantly in all terminal sessions

Install

1. Clone repository
2. Enter the folder "install" and run sudo ./install-sc.

Quickstart

1. Open a new terminal and type s -h. You should get some usage output.
2. Run s -a hw echo hello world. This sets the shortcut with token hw.
3. Run s hw. You should see hello world being echoed.
4. Run s. The program wil print a list of valid commands (there should be only one so far).
5. Run s -rm hw to remove the command to print hello world.

Examples

• Pipes
  1. s -a ll "ls | less"
  2. s ll executes ls and then pipes the output to less
• Command arguments
  1. s -a lg "ls | grep"
  2. s lg -i desktop searches for files matching the pattern "desktop" ignoring case
• Use previous command
  1. echo hello
  2. s -a e !! sets shortcut "e" to the previous command
  3. s e should echo hello
• Save directory
  1. Go into any directory
  2. s -a d1 cd $(pwd) will create a shortcut that will enter the current directory
  3. Go into a different directory
  4. s d1 will bring you back to the original directory
• Functions
  1. s -a a2f 'f(){ cat $1>>$2;}; f' creates a function that will append the content of one file to another
  2. echo hello > a.txt
  3. echo world > b.txt
  4. s a2f b.txt a.txt the contents of a.txt will be appended to b.txt
  5. cat b.txt should now output hello world (with a newline in between)

Usage

• s
  • List all possible commands
• s -h
  • Show usage
• s <name> [<args>]
  • Run command with specified name
  • Any arguments are passed to the command
• s -a <token> <command> [<args>]
  • Add new command with name token
  • New token name can be comprised of any alphanumeric sequence (excluding -h, -a, -rm-, spaces, and other bash reserved characters)
• s -rm <name>
  • Remove command with specified name