Helpful aliases and functions for working locally at UNSW CSE

unsw_shell_aliases.sh

# Copy this into your .bashrc or .zshrc
# To make this even nicer, use `ssh-copy-id` so you don't need to use your password for everything

# UNSW zID
export ZID="z5312085"

# Environment variables pointing to CSE Servers
export CSE="${ZID}@login.cse.unsw.edu.au"

# Quick alias for SSH-ing into CSE
alias cse="ssh $CSE"

# Quick function for grabbing files from CSE
#
# cse-get /path/to/my/file.txt
# Download to ./file.txt
#
# cse-get /path/to/my/file.txt /path/to/save/in.txt
# Download to in.txt
#
# Note that using the ~ character won't work correctly on the CSE end
cse-get()
{
    if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
        echo "CSE: Downloading $1 -> ${1##*/}"
        rsync "$CSE":"$1" ${1##*/}
    elif [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
        echo "CSE: Downloading $1 -> $2"
        rsync "$CSE":"$1" $2
    else
        echo "Usage: cse-get from_file [to_file]"
    fi
}

# Quick function for sending files to CSE
#
# cse-set /path/to/my/file.txt
# Upload to your CSE home directory as file.txt
#
# cse-set /path/to/my/file.txt /path/to/save/in.txt
# Upload to CSE systems under the given path
#
# Note that using the ~ character won't work correctly on the CSE end
cse-set()
{
    if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
        echo "CSE: Uploading $1 -> ${1##*/}"
        rsync ${1##*/} "${CSE}:/home/${ZID}/${1}"
    elif [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
        echo "CSE: Uploading $1 -> $2"
        rsync $1 "$CSE":"$2"
    else
        echo "Usage: cse-set from_file [to_file]"
    fi
}