Useful Bash utilities which might be added, for example, to .bashrc

useful.bash.utilities.sh

#!/bin/bash

alias view-staged-diff="git diff --staged > ~/temp/changes.diff && gedit ~/temp/changes.diff &"
alias view-diff="git diff > ~/temp/changes.diff && gedit ~/temp/changes.diff &"

free_port() {
  kill -9 $(lsof -t -i:$1)
}

terminate() {
  pids_to_kill=$(ps aux|grep $1|awk '{print $2}')

  [[ ! -z $pids_to_kill ]] && kill -9 $pids_to_kill
}

add_github_key() {
  eval $(ssh-agent)
  sleep 0.5
  ssh-add ~/.ssh/github
}

restart_kde_plasma() {
 sudo killall plasmashell
 sleep 1
 kstart plasmashell
}

find_large_dirs() {
 du -h | grep '^[0-9]\.*[0-9]*G'
}