Here are some aliases that I find useful, nothing quite fancy. Any alias involving rm comes with a standard "handle with care" tag.
Cleaning up directories:
alias purge '\rm *~ *~*~ #*# .*~*~ *.BAK .*.BAK .*% *% *.bak'
Unshare and Edit: My standard approach for hacking files that are golden is to save a master copy and then create links to it. Once I need to hack further, I use unshedit.
alias unshedit '\cp \!* x.temp;\mv x.temp \!*;chmod +w \!*;gvim \!*'
To open a man page in a new window:
alias man 'xterm -geometry 90x70 -T \!* -ah -n \!* -bg gray40 -fg orange -e /usr/bin/man \!* &'
Don't know an easier way thus:
alias ipconfig "grep `hostname` /etc/hosts |awk '{print $1}'"
File testing conditions:
| -e file | true if file exists |
| -o file | true if file exists and is owned by the user |
| -r file | true if file exists and is readable |
| -w file | true if file exists and is writable |
| -x file | true if file exists and is executable |
| -z file | true if file exists and is zero size |
| -d dir | true if dir exists and is a directory |
