Terminal customisations (prompt, avoiding ./ and aliasing cd ..)

[alowe]

Just going to add these as and when I find them.

A simple alias to get rm to behave like DOS del.

Code:

alias del="rm -r"

The -r is the option added to recursively delete directory contents (as well as the directory specified). Be careful you don't accidentally delete a directory. By default rm doesn't delete directories so the -r option is added so you can use del as a delete all command.

Code:

#compile and execute a program easily
function run { gcc -o $1 $1.c; $1; }

If you're learning to program in C (like I am, for fun) then this makes things a bit quicker. It overwrites by default.

Instead of typing:

Code:

gcc -o HelloWorld Helloworld.c
./Helloworld

all you have to type is:

Code:

run HelloWorld

needs the line, PATH=.:$PATH, to be added beforehand to take advantage of avoiding ./

And a few other additions:

Code:

alias cls="clear"
alias type="cat"

I did try using less with a -FX option but it doesn't behave like I want it to. Scrolls one line at a time and only exits on ^Z. cat is fine for the job because Terminal has a vertical scroll bar. If it's bigger than 1 screen just scroll up using the mouse. No problemo!