General Mac OS X .profile

.profile

#!/bin/bash

# Global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
    . /etc/bashrc
fi

# Change the window title of X terminals (similar to Fedora's)
export PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
export PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "\033]0;%s@%s:%s\007" "${USER}" "${HOSTNAME%%.*}" "${PWD/#$HOME/~}"'

# Don't print duplicates when I hit the up button
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

#------
# Paths
#------

# Redefine the default PATH with preference to /usr/local/bin for use with Homebrew
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/share/python:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/sbin
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$HOME/Documents/Programming

#------------------------------------
# User specific aliases and functions
#------------------------------------

# Tab complete brew commands
source $(brew --prefix)/Library/Contributions/brew_bash_completion.sh

# Make a patch file between two source trees
alias make_patch="diff -uNr"

# Clear the screen of your clutter
alias c="clear"
alias cl="clear;ls;pwd"

# Make grep use color by default, and make a shortcut to using perl regex
alias grep="grep --color"
alias grepp="grep -P --color"

# Shortcuts for various ls options.  All of these add colors, ignore files
# ending with '~', and add '/' to the end of folders.  Shortcuts ending
# with 'a' show hidden files as well, except the redundant '.' and '..'.
alias ls="ls -pBG"
alias la="ls -pAG"
alias ll="ls -phlG"      # long-form list
alias lla="ls -phlAG"
alias lz="ls -pshSG"     # sort by file size
alias lza="ls -pshSAG"
alias lt="ls -pghotrG"   # long-form, sort by modification date
alias lta="ls -pghotrAG"
alias lx="ls -pghoXG"    # sort by file extention
alias lxa="ls -pghoXAG"
alias lr="ls -ARpshG"    # recursive list (watch out!  It will fill your screen!)

# Make some of the file manipulation programs verbose
alias mv="mv -v"
alias rm="rm -v"
alias cp="cp -v"

# Prints disk usage in human readable form
alias d="du -sh"

# Forces an update of the locate database
alias updatedb="sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb"

# Function to automatically extract a compressed file
extract () {
     if [ -f $1 ] ; then
         case $1 in
             *.tar.bz2)   tar -xvjf $1     ;;
             *.tar.gz)    tar -xvzf $1     ;;
             *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1       ;;
             *.rar)       rar -x $1        ;;
             *.gz)        gunzip $1        ;;
             *.tar)       tar -xvf $1      ;;
             *.tbz2)      tar -xvjf $1     ;;
             *.tgz)       tar -xvzf $1     ;;
             *.zip)       unzip $1         ;;
             *.Z)         uncompress $1    ;;
             *.7z)        7z -x $1         ;;
             *)           echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via extract()" ;;
         esac
     else
         echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
     fi
}